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Article: Classics seen as `mood music'
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- June 25, 1994
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REGULAR buyers of classical music have little or no knowledge of
the works or their composers but are buying the music to throw
dinner parties to.
This is one of the findings of private research carried out by
the record company EMI and has led to the company releasing four
compilation CDs of mood music - all excerpts from famous works -
entitled Tranquility, Melancholy, Power and Passion. All four have
entered the classical chart and today Tranquility will be number
one in that chart.
Two thousand people were surveyed by EMI and large numbers said
they bought classical music as mood music, either for dinner, to
wind down and relax, to let off steam, or because "it transports
you".
The ...