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In Reply to: To be fair, this would have to be calculated on a scientific basis. posted by clarkjohnsen on December 2, 2006 at 12:38:57:
How would you calculate it, Clark? Being scientific and all? What is a "day's worth" of recordings? Are you calculating according to some sort of "music minutes" scale?If I own every recording ever made of works by Myaskovsky, that still comes to fewer than 100 recordings. On the other hand, I own more than 100 recordings of Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade alone, and more than 100 of Rachmaninoff's 3rd piano concerto, not to mention the other works by those composers. It would be impossible to own equal numbers of recordings by Myaskovsky, as much as I would like to, not because he didn't write as much, but because not as many recordings exist. So which one would be "underfeatured" in your calculation?
I would suggest that it is not how many recordings one owns of works by a particular composer, or even how many hours of "music minutes" allocated to each composer, but "listening time" that is really more informative. Which composers does one listen to most? And that changes over time. I have a truckload of Mahler recordings, but I listen to them much less than I used to, whereas I listen to Brahms as much now as I ever have over the years. So is Mahler overfeatured in terms of "music minutes" or underfeatured in terms of "listening minutes"?
It's fun to try to think of ways to be more precise in regard to our musical pasttime, but I find it pretty hard to do.
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