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!mhuxr!ihnp4!ihuxn!jho From: jho@ihuxn.UUCP (Yosi Hoshen) Newsgroups: net.music.classical Subject: Re: Favorite Composer Poll - Interim results Message-ID: <908@ihuxn.UUCP> Date: Sat, 15-Dec-84 21:51:23 EST Article-I.D.: ihuxn.908 Posted: Sat Dec 15 21:51:23 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 16-Dec-84 09:24:04 EST References: <900@ihuxn.UUCP> <4214@tekecs.UUCP> <17960@lanl.ARPA> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 19 >How would you define 'favorite composer'? Is he the composer that >wrote the piece which is you current favorite? Is he the composer >of the music that is most represented in your record collection? > >I think I would have to define 'favorite composer' experimentally. >Suppose that any composer in history could write just one more piece, >which would you pick? (This would be biased against prolific composers >whose works were similar.) Then, suppose two concerts were held the >same night featuring the works of different composers, which would >you attend? (You have to do this one pairwise for all composers.) When I posed this question, I expected every respondent to define it for himself/herself. The responses indicated that different people had different criteria for selecting their favorite composer. -- Yosi Hoshen, Bell Laboratories Naperville, Illinois, (312)-979-7321, Mail: ihnp4!ihuxn!jho