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Steve Schwartz <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 15 Sep 2000 12:59:12 -0500
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Wilson Pereira:

>But this raised a very interesting question: what pieces of Classical
>Music would be more suitable to induce the sleep, or what pieces of CM
>would have therapeutic purposes in inducing the sleep? I'd like to hear
>opinions on this subject, please.

Bach, of course, wrote the Goldberg Variations for an insomniac, but I
wonder how well they worked as an aid to sleep.

Philip Glass's music usually puts *me* to sleep, but that may also be
idiosyncratic.

Steve Schwartz

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