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Default Music that energises and inspires - with no lyrics please!

I'm trying to find music that I can work too, that will both be positive for my mental state, and not distract me overmuch.

I don't necessarily mean 'upbeat' songs - but classical music, electronica, stuff that is reasonably calm but still happy, inspiring and that put you into a state where you have clear focus.

I don't mind stuff with vocals, as long as it doesn't have actual lyrics - I find that they distract me and keep my mind 'trapped' at a particular level (or I tune out the music altogether, which doesn't help).

All suggestions welcomed, from any source - the hugely well-known and popular, to the incredibly obscure and independent.

Thanks!
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YouTube - Pablo Casals plays BACH - Suite no 1 for Cello - part 2
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YouTube - Pablo Casals plays Bach Suite #1
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YouTube - Honeyroot : Losing My Mind What about this?
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Here are a bunch of legally free video game music remixes which you might like, which all seem reasonably calm, inspiring, happy, etc. to me.

ReMix: Mega Man 2 'The Fifth Season' - OverClocked ReMix
ReMix: Shining Force CD 'Five-Sided Square' - OverClocked ReMix
ReMix: Super Mario World 'Grand Valse Mario' - OverClocked ReMix
ReMix: Deadly Towers 'Quest for Conan' - OverClocked ReMix
ReMix: EarthBound 'Funky Bookas' - OverClocked ReMix
ReMix: Super Mario Bros. 2 'SuperBuckJazz' - OverClocked ReMix
ReMix: Super Mario World 'Super Mario's Sleigh Ride' - OverClocked ReMix
ReMix: Sonic the Hedgehog 3 'Pure Black, or Marbles and Cream?' - OverClocked ReMix
ReMix: The Last Ninja '8-Bit Kamikaze' - OverClocked ReMix
ReMix: Super Mario Bros. 3 'Battle Rocks' - OverClocked ReMix
ReMix: Sonic the Hedgehog 3 'Sonik Azure' - OverClocked ReMix
ReMix: The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past 'The Darkness And The Light' - OverClocked ReMix
ReMix: Marble Madness 'SphercularKinetics' - OverClocked ReMix (mostly cheerful but gets a bit ominous toward the end)

"Emerald Shore": Greg2k: song Comments

"Green Hill Zone": 8 Bit Instrumental VGM: song Comments

"Mario flys in and hits link round the head with a deku stick" (violent-sounding title but the song itself is nothing like that): infamous: song Comments

"The Forest That Never Sleeps": halcyon: song Comments

"Mushroom Maddness": Trevin Hughes: song Comments

"Pilotwings!": Hezkore: song Comments

VUREZ.COM - I haven't listened to all of these yet but I can recommend "Wind Swoop" and "Flaming Desert Sand".

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YouTube - funtwo - Canon (Cover.): Highest quality video in the World
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Elektronkind » DJ Mixes

Go for DREAMSCAPE 1...


Look around also for a DJ by the name of ASC and his DEEP SPACE SERIES of mixes. I would recommend starting at #1.
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I've got a nice collection of non-vocal techno that I listen to while working. It helps me focus, my mind finds it harder to wander when the music is on. I can upload it if you wish (about 80mb)
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I'm trying to find music that I can work too, that will both be positive for my mental state, and not distract me overmuch.
My personal mix...

For studying/reading/having in the background, to keep me alert, but doesn't distract me:
Bach or similar.

For getting psyched up, or doing a workout (if I walk with this in my ipod I'll just end up walking at a cardio pace then running):
The band "Disturbed" especially the songs "Ten Thousand Fists", "Down With The Sickness" and "Indestructible".

I DON'T listen to sad, sappy songs if I want to have energy. They put my brain into a daydreaming space. They're ok if I need to be in a space to just chill out.

I listen to newer music while trying to get stuff done. I prefer not to listen to songs with too much nostalgia content if I'm trying to make things happen. I don't want to muddy up my concentration with daydreaming about the associations brought up by "oldies".
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Great thread. Really enjoying listening to a lot of the songs suggested here. I'll add 2 that I like; the 1st I immediately thought of and the second came to me because of Apollia's list of video game music:

Requiem for a Dream

Wind Scene from Chrono Trigger
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If you want music that will feed the brain listen to

Gregorian chant, the benedictine monks are my favorite, it has lyrics in latin but its worth it for
the energy it flows through your body.

also baroque music

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
6 Concerti after Vivaldi.
Concerto for Harpsichord in C Major / C minor / F Major, BWV 976 / 975 / 978.
Goldberg Variations, BWV 988
Concerto for Harpsichord in F minor, BWV 1056.
Concerto for Flute and Strings in G Major, BWV 1056.
Suite for Orchestra No. 3, BWV 1068. --- "Air".

Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713)
Concerti Grossi, Opus 5. --- Concerti 7, 8, 9, and 10.
12 Concerti Grossi, Opus 6.

George Frederick Handel or Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759)
12 Concerti Grossi, Opus 6.
Concerto Grosso Nr. 1 in B flat Major, Opus 3.
Music for the Royal Fireworks. -- Concerti No. 1 and 3.

Johann Pachelbel (1653-1706)
Canon in D Major.

Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)
Concerto in G Major for Viola and String Orchestra.

Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
6 Flute Concerti, Opus 10.
Flute Concerto Nr. 4 in G Major.
The Four Seasons. -"Winter".
Concerto in C Major for Mandolin, Strings, and Harpsichord.
Concerto in D Major for Guitar and Strings.
Concerto in D minor for Viola d'amore, Strings, and Harpsichord.


Generally any music that plays at 60 beats per minute puts the mind
into a relaxed state yet alert for learning and increases recall by 25%
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Generally any music that plays at 60 beats per minute puts the mind
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How do you know? and what kind of music would that be.
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Glenn Gould's recording of the Goldberg Variations is a must.

Missa Papae Marcelli by Palestrina There are lyrics, but it's in Latin, so I don't think it will be a problem.

Die Kunst der Fuge by Bach

The second movement of Sonata Opus 111 by Beethoven

2nd movement of Tempest sonata by Beethoven

And anything by David Lanz.
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Some quiet guitar music.

YouTube - (X-mas Carol) Lulajze Jezuniu - Sungha Jung
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How do you know? and what kind of music would that be.
For more background on this effect check out

Dipamo, B. and Job, R. F. S. (1991). A methodological review of studies of SALT (Suggestive-accelerative learning and teaching) techniques. Australian Journal of Educational Technology, 7(2), 127-143. AJET 7(2): Dipamo and Job (1991) - a review of studies of SALT techniques


Also The Einstein Factor by Win Wenger

All the Baroque music that I listed are 60BPM and shown to assist in accelerated learning, relaxation and generation of alpha brainwaves to assist in creativity.
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The Books
Tin Hat Trio
Rodrigo y Gabriel
Bela Fleck and the Flecktones
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YouTube - Airwave - Ladyblue (Ambient Flight)
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Youtube - Pat Metheny - Slip Away

I love this tune
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I'm part of an intentional artists/dj collective/musicians/dancers/this that the other community. Our music rocks. Check out our download page at moontribe . (and please feel free to give us a donation 'cause we's donation based )

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Mozart always does it for me. I'm not enough of a classical music enthusiast to actually know anything about classical music, but I've picked up a lot of classical CDs at thrift stores, and pretty much any of Mozart's concertos are great work/study music.

Same goes for Handel, Vivaldi, and Haydn.

Bach's Cello Suites, definitely; I have Yo-Yo Ma's versions.

I also have a couple of CDs of classical guitar solos played by Julian Bream that are great for helping me relax and focus.

And he's not for everyone, but I like Philip Glass a lot--the Koyaanisqatsi soundtrack, the solo piano album, the Kronos Quartet's CD of his work. Oh, and speaking of the Kronos Quartet, I love their Pieces of Africa CD--it's music by African composers, played by a classical string quartet with accompaniment by African musicians. There is some singing, but it's in various African languages so I don't get hung up on the lyrics.

Hmmm...Brian Eno's Music for Airports and On Land. Peter Gabriel's The Last Temptation of Christ soundtrack, which is titled Passion.

That's what I've got, anyway.
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Holy, this is an amazing thread! Thanks to all for posting these music links. I'm going to go through them as I work today and I'm quite excited to find something new that will tickle my brain
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Thank you all SO much! There are some amazing songs here - and a lot of stuff left for me to listen to!
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Elektronkind » DJ Mixes

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Look around also for a DJ by the name of ASC and his DEEP SPACE SERIES of mixes. I would recommend starting at #1.
Those rock... I've been listening to them all morning. Very chill. Thanks
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check out jamendo.com for all the free music from any and all genres you could ever want.. its all legal and creative commons!
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Explosions in the sky is awesome! First time I listened to them besides not knowing I was in Friday night lights. Thanks!
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Bob Dylans Modern Times CD is good. Nice steady beat.

Any New Orleans style blues band music is incredibly pump-uping for me.
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