Selecting music for example-content

[Henrik Nilsen Omma]

Sandis Neilands wrote:

Hi Sandis!

Thanks for that thorough test of the music. You obviously have better 
musical sense than me (not a difficult thing in in itself though) :)
> OK, if space on CD wasn't a problem, then 3 - 4 different genres would
> be perfectly fine. Unfortunately ubuntu ships with outdated windows
> software, so we can't have space for something more interesting or
> usable for actual users.
>   
Interesting. I should do a separate post to the desktop and devel lists 
about the Windows-FOSS. OpenOffice is the big space hog there.
> Few thoughts then. If we pick from classics, we shouldn't go with
> religious (or American) hymns. 
I agree. We need to be sensitive about this. I guess most of the classic 
choral works are an ode to God in some way, as is all of Bach as you 
point out. A Mozart or Italian opera piece might be better.
> Thumbs up for Jupiter. Venus is very beautiful, but you are right,
> that it's perhaps too sleepy for purpose of the example content.
> However I can't stress enough how rude it is to cut (cripple) music.
> If Jupiter or any other candidate is too long, then it's better to
> drop it from candidate list, than cut it.
>   
Hm, I was tempted to cut out a section, but I also didn't find a good 
place to cut really. Probably because it's not quite the same when taken 
out of context, as you say.

Than you for your list of suggestions. I will check those out.

I was also made aware of this site http://www.remixcommons.org/ which 
might have some interesting stuff.

These were suggested:

http://www.remixcommons.org/node/698
http://www.remixcommons.org/node/662
http://www.remixcommons.org/node/394
http://www.remixcommons.org/node/341
http://www.remixcommons.org/node/328
http://www.remixcommons.org/node/314
http://www.remixcommons.org/node/255


- Henrik