Listening List
Do you feel like you're not inspired enough with your writing? Are you hitting a wall with your creative output and need some inspiration? Here's a short list of some of the compositions that inspire me to make music:
Debussy - Danseuses de Delphes ("Dancers of Delphi", a mystical oracle of ancient Greece) and La Cathedrale Engloutie (The Sunken Cathedral, based on a Briton legend)
Messiaen - La Colombe (The Dove) and O Sacrum Convivium
John Coltrane - Crescent and 26-2
Miles Davis - Nefertiti (sheet music here) and Pinocchio
Hindemith - Piano Sonata 3, Movement IV and Oboe Sonata, Movement II
Antheil - Piano Sonata 2 "The Airplane"
Sakura (Cherry Blossoms - Japanese Edo folk song)
Ambush From All Sides (traditional Chinese classical piece)
Sorabji - Gulistan (The Rose Garden)
Stockhausen - Klavierstucke IX
Berio - Sequenza III and Sequenza II
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