Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihuxn.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!houxm!ihnp4!ihuxn!jho From: jho@ihuxn.UUCP (Yosi Hoshen) Newsgroups: net.music.classical Subject: Favorite Composer Poll - Interim results Message-ID: <900@ihuxn.UUCP> Date: Mon, 10-Dec-84 12:44:28 EST Article-I.D.: ihuxn.900 Posted: Mon Dec 10 12:44:28 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 11-Dec-84 03:50:33 EST Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 54 This is an interim survey report on the question: Who is your favorite composer? If you have not responded, feel free to send me your response. (Please try to come with one name only.) Next week, I will repost again. Hopefully I will get more responses. The following table tabulates preferences of 30 net.music.classical respondents. --------------------------------------------------------- Composer Votes ======== ===== Bach J.S (1685-1750) 7 Beethoven (1770-1827) 5 Mozart (1756-1791) 4 Vivaldi (1678-1741) 2 Bartok (1881-1945) 1 Brahms (1833-1897) 1 Debussy (1862-1918) 1 Chopin (1810-1849) 1 Hovhaness A. (1911- ) 1 Koonce P. (*) 1 Mahler (1860-1911) 1 Scarlatti D. (1685-1757) 1 Zappa F. (?) 1 Uncommitted (**) 3 ----------------------------------------------------------------- *Paul Koonce, graduate student of composition and Computer Music at the University of California, San Diego (La Jolla). ** Thoses netters who could not come with one favorite composer. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Observations: 1. At this point J. S. Bach seems to be the winner in the net.music classical poll. 2. The 18 century seems to be the most popular century among the net.music.classical readers. 3. Twenty century composers do not appear to be very popular in this news group. 4. The supporters of J.S. Bach are very firm. Supporters of Beethoven and Mozart were less committed to their preferred composer. Quite a few of them said that this is their current favorite, but that they may switch in the future. I guess, we may use the term floating voter for these respondents. -- Yosi Hoshen, Bell Laboratories Naperville, Illinois, (312)-979-7321, Mail: ihnp4!ihuxn!jho