One of our favorite services, Pandora, has added classical music to the service.

Pandora is not only nirvana for music geeks to find new or undiscovered music tracks, performers, composers, etc. It also shows the usefulness and usability of professionally created metadata. Professionals (musicians, professors, etc.) review each track for over 400 criteria. More about that here. Example.

From the announcement:

Since we launched Pandora 2 years ago, our most common request from listeners has been that we add Classical music. We’re excited to announce that Classical music is now available on Pandora. Enjoy, and please let us know if you have any feedback. The Classical Genome is a work in progress and we’d love to hear any of your suggestions on how to improve it.

If you’re new to Classical music, here are a few stations we created to help you get started:

* Symphonic, Classical Period:
* Symphonic, Romantic Period:
* Piano Concerti, Classical Period
* Opera, Romantic Period:
* Chamber, Baroque Period

Alternatively, you can create a station by typing in the name of your favorite composer on the Pandora home page.

See Also: Pandora Can Also Serve as an Excellent Music Research Tool. Use this search box (also found at the top of most pages). For example: a searches for:

+ (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction by the Rolling Stones vs. Devo version.

+ Symphony No. 9 In D Minor (”Choral”), Op. 125: I. Allegro Ma Non Troppo by Beethoven

+ Good Times by Chic

Each entry shows artist info and the criteria that has been assigned to the track. More about Pandora very soon.

See Also: Searching For Music and Personalizing Those Results

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