# Recommend me some 'trippy' classical music..

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-trippy-classical-music/438892>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [February 23, 2008, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-trippy-classical-music/438892 "2008-02-23T22:57:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![brossa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brossa/32/3040_2.png) [@brossa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brossa)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2008, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-trippy-classical-music/438892/41 "2008-03-04T13:42:34Z")

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[QUOTE=don’t ask]  
The first thing I thought of when I read the OP was Philip Glass’s _Prelude To Akhnaten_ from his _Violin Concerto_. You can listen to it, and lots of other stuff in streaming audio, [here](http://www.philipglass.com/music/index.php) under listen/watch. It is a really weird piece in which the same musical figure is repeated over and over with changes in emphasis that seem make the whole hypnotic and trick the ear into hearing non-existent changes of rhythm. It is a really clever trick.  
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That is really neat. Thanks!

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**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2008, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-trippy-classical-music/438892/42 "2008-03-04T15:52:54Z")

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[QUOTE=I Love Me, Vol. I]  
Living language! can’t not do no wrongs! There isn’t none wrong grammar no more!!!  
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The indirect object is some wacky new nonstandard English?

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**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2008, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-trippy-classical-music/438892/43 "2008-03-04T19:43:53Z")

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The “Danse générale” (a bacchanal) at the end of Ravel’s “Daphnis and Chloe” starts in 5/4 and stays there until near the end.

Except for the first few bars, the first movement of Bernstein’s “Chichester Psalms” is in 7/4.

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**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2008, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-trippy-classical-music/438892/44 "2008-03-06T23:59:36Z")

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[QUOTE=Key Lime Guy]  
Even though they would be classified as “jazz”, I bet you’d like these by Pat Metheny:

“The Heat Of The Day”  
excerpt [here.](http://www.amazon.com/Imaginary-Day-Pat-Metheny/dp/B000002NIE/ref=sr_1_16?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1203826195&sr=1-16)

“The First Circle” and “Tell it All”  
[here.](http://www.amazon.com/First-Circle-Pat-Metheny-Group/dp/B0000261UH/ref=sr_1_19?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1203826195&sr=1-19)

(It’s amazing to be in a crowd of thousands who can clap along to “First Circle”!)  
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KLG, you are one of the few here who is into Pat. I’ve mentioned him a few times, without any responses.

And, I agree with your assessment.

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