{"id":558,"date":"2007-04-27T23:18:59","date_gmt":"2007-04-28T07:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/?p=558"},"modified":"2016-10-12T06:42:09","modified_gmt":"2016-10-12T13:42:09","slug":"music-to-listen-to-while-you-read-part-ii-don-quixote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/music-to-listen-to-while-you-read-part-ii-don-quixote","title":{"rendered":"Music to Listen to While You Read Part II – Don Quixote"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"DonYesterday<\/a> I wrote about the music I like to listen to while reading Patrick O’Brian’s Master and Commander series. I know that the reading group Tilting at Windmills<\/a> is about to begin Don Quixote<\/a>, <\/span>so today I want to share the kind of music that helps set the atmosphere when I read this most excellent novel. (Sidenote: If you’ve never read Don Quixote<\/span> you should join Tilting at Windmills<\/a> and read it–it’s my favorite book, hands down, and in my opinion the greatest novel ever written.)<\/p>\n

To achieve a Spanish ambience when I read it, I love listening to Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez for guitar and orchestra<\/a>. Its light and lively melodies remind me of the relationship between Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, and it makes me feel like I’m in a Spanish villa. If you can’t get a hold of Rodrigo’s music, almost any CD of Baroque guitar concertos will provide a good substitute.<\/p>\n

I also enjoy Richard Strauss’s tone poem Don Quixote<\/a>, conducted by Herbert von Karajan.<\/p>\n

Next time I’ll talk about music I like to listen to while reading Tolkien.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I wrote about the music I like to listen to while reading Patrick O’Brian’s Master and Commander series. I know that the reading group Tilting at Windmills is about to begin Don Quixote, so today I want to share the kind of music that helps set the atmosphere when I read this most excellent novel. (Sidenote: If you’ve never read Don Quixote you should join Tilting at Windmills and read it–it’s my favorite book, hands down, and in my opinion the greatest novel ever written.) To achieve...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4047,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[47,161,780,229,31,78,228],"class_list":["post-558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","category-music","tag-classics","tag-don-quixote","tag-herbert-von-karajan","tag-joaquin-rodrigo","tag-literature","tag-reviews","tag-richard-strauss"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/donquixotecd.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pOucj-90","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=558"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4048,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions\/4048"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}