{"id":47,"date":"2014-08-26T18:32:10","date_gmt":"2014-08-26T18:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tmwaldroon.com\/blog\/?p=47"},"modified":"2014-08-26T18:32:10","modified_gmt":"2014-08-26T18:32:10","slug":"soundtrack-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tmwaldroon.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/soundtrack-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Soundtrack I"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earphones are wonderful things, muffling the here-and-now of the acoustical world, and replacing it with some new distraction of one&#8217;s free choice. I don&#8217;t always work with earphones clamped to my head, but when I do, I need the new noise to be wordless, or in some language I can&#8217;t understand. Chamber music is best.<\/p>\n<p>Some recent winners of the repeat-button endorsement (this list is alphabetical to avoid the appearance of a ranking):<\/p>\n<ul>\nCharles-Valentin Alkan, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JBDW5oeHFuY\" title=\"La Vision\" target=\"_blank\">48 Esquisses<\/a><br \/>\nJ. S. Bach, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Mia9woisQZo\" title=\"Glenn Gould plays Bach\" target=\"_blank\">The Well-Tempered Clavier<\/a><br \/>\nCharles Ives, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cDNPpsUaVYo\" title=\"Concord Sonata\" target=\"_blank\">Piano Sonata No. 2 &#8220;Concord, Massachusetts&#8221;<\/a><br \/>\nCharles Ives, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TzvC424Z_P4\" title=\"Hilary Hahn &#038; Valentina Lisitsa\" target=\"_blank\">Sonatas for Violin and Piano<\/a><br \/>\nCharles Ives, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3pje0NjfHXg\" title=\"String Quartet No. 1, 2nd movement\" target=\"_blank\">String Quartets<\/a><br \/>\nStefan Wolpe, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lHU_blfJq7A\" title=\"Enactments\" target=\"_blank\">Enactments for Three Pianos<\/a><br \/>\nStefan Wolpe, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LcgzvZoA-oI\" title=\"Piece in Two Parts\" target=\"_blank\">Piece in Two Parts for Six Players<\/a><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earphones are wonderful things, muffling the here-and-now of the acoustical world, and replacing it with some new distraction of one&#8217;s free choice. I don&#8217;t always work with earphones clamped to my head, but when I do, I need the new noise to be wordless, or in some language I can&#8217;t understand. Chamber music is best. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tmwaldroon.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/soundtrack-i\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Soundtrack I&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-between-the-ears"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmwaldroon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmwaldroon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmwaldroon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmwaldroon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmwaldroon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tmwaldroon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49,"href":"https:\/\/tmwaldroon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions\/49"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmwaldroon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmwaldroon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmwaldroon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}