It is (apparently) hard to write about a subject of which you (apparently) know nothing
While preparing for a 6-pg. paper, I have had to look up the following terms on Wikipedia and/or the Grove Dictionary of Music:
Adorno
Africa
Bartok
Beethoven
Cantata
Debussy
Chavez
Coryphaeus
Hegel
Kant
Modernism
Nationalism
Ode to Joy
Orientalism
Primitivism
Prometheus Unbound
The Rite of Spring
Schiller
Stravinsky
Sublime
Symphony
Symphony No. 9 (Beethoven)
Threnody
Sometimes grad school's expectation that I be smart and knowledgeable seems unfair.
But ho, check out this cute urban legend, courtesy of Wikipedia:
Beethoven's Ninth Symphony may also have influenced the development of the compact disc. Philips, the company that had started the work on the new audio format, originally planned for a CD to have a diameter of 11.5 cm, while Sony planned a 10 cm diameter needed for one hour of music. However, according to a Philips website, Norio Ohga insisted in 1979 that the CD be able to contain a complete performance of the Ninth Symphony: "The longest known performance lasted 74 minutes. This was a mono recording made during the Bayreuther Festspiele in 1951 and conducted by Wilhelm Furtwängler [the recording I am listening to now!]. This therefore became the playing time of a CD. A diameter of 12 centimeters was required for this playing time."
Adorno
Africa
Bartok
Beethoven
Cantata
Debussy
Chavez
Coryphaeus
Hegel
Kant
Modernism
Nationalism
Ode to Joy
Orientalism
Primitivism
Prometheus Unbound
The Rite of Spring
Schiller
Stravinsky
Sublime
Symphony
Symphony No. 9 (Beethoven)
Threnody
Sometimes grad school's expectation that I be smart and knowledgeable seems unfair.
But ho, check out this cute urban legend, courtesy of Wikipedia:
Beethoven's Ninth Symphony may also have influenced the development of the compact disc. Philips, the company that had started the work on the new audio format, originally planned for a CD to have a diameter of 11.5 cm, while Sony planned a 10 cm diameter needed for one hour of music. However, according to a Philips website, Norio Ohga insisted in 1979 that the CD be able to contain a complete performance of the Ninth Symphony: "The longest known performance lasted 74 minutes. This was a mono recording made during the Bayreuther Festspiele in 1951 and conducted by Wilhelm Furtwängler [the recording I am listening to now!]. This therefore became the playing time of a CD. A diameter of 12 centimeters was required for this playing time."