Update on my move to assisted living.

[pangaia]

44. If you want to improve your brain, study classical music scores.

What are harmonic, melodic, rhythmic analysis?
Learn what double invertible counterpoint is.
metric modulation
spiccato vs detache
Sonata Allegro form
cancrizan
diminution and augmentation of a fugue theme
third middle entry in a fugue
why are the trumpet triplets in the opening of Mahler's 5th Symphony usually played slightly delayed and squeezed closer together than written?
what is transposition of Db piccolo
learn to read all the C Clefs (now THERE's ONE for ya.. if that doesn't drive you gaga you're all good))
What is going on in the 1st mvt of the Shostakovich 7th symphony
2 or 3 hammer blows in Mahler's 6th symphony? and why?
tempi considerations in Beethoven symphonies.... for example Rattle vs Furtwangler
should the timpanist substitute different pitches (the double bass line) in the 1st & 4th mvts of Dvorak's New World Symphony.. Same question for many places in Beethoven symphonies...
Compare the use of string vibrato in performing Baroque, Classical and Romantic Period music.
learn to play violin-- hey.. why not?

Playing classical music involves every possible part of the human organism...