Music preferences in the HP world (if they listened to Muggle music)

[coriolan_cmc2001]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "darkstar_2814" <darkstar_2814 at y...> 
wrote:
> First of all, my goal is not to try to deliberately say what JKR 
> should write in future books.  My goal is to waste time.
> 
> According to Dumbledore's trading card, he enjoys chamber music.  
> So I got to thinking about other characters and here's what I came 
up 
> with (feel free to contradict me if necessary):

SNAPE: Wanting to prove himself superior to the groundlings, Snape 
would be heavily invested in the Second Viennese School (Berg, 'Berg, 
and 'Bern), as well as the post-Webern school.  The purpose of such 
music is to intellectually intimidate, not to entertain or amuse.

DUMBLEDORE: That "obsolete dingbat"  - to quote Rita Skeeter that 
epigone of secular (i.e., Truth Beyond Question) media would no doubt 
favor the obsolete values of clarity, structure, and beauty, thus 
aligning himself with such classical-era composers as Mozart, Haydn & 
CPE Bach.

VOLDEMORT: The interval of the tritone is also known as the "Diabolus 
in musica" (the devil in music), and Voldy would no doubt look for 
composers who exploited this tonal instabilty. Voldy would gravitate 
towards those composers who, like Blake's Milton, were "of the 
Devil's party without knowing it": Berlioz (with his "highway to 
Hell" sequence in The Damnation of Faust, climaxed by a "chorus in an 
unknown tongue"), or Liszt (the four Mephisto Waltzes, each more 
harmonically unstable than the next). Being British, Voldy might also 
enjoy The Demons' Chorus in Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius, despite 
the fact that these demons are under a lock and key far more 
restrictive than the one imposed upon Harry at Privet Drive.

HERMIONE: Herm would swear by that most logical of composers JS Bach, 
though she might also feel some attraction toward the post-Webern 
school of total organization. She would definitely like Boulez, and 
might also be into Glass & Reich.

HARRY:  An exposure to Beethoven might expand his vision of heroism. 
And if he were to reflect on Beethoven's Coriolan Overture, he might 
draw certain conclusions on the nature of treason and whether or not 
people like Pete Pettigrew could be redeemed. 

BLACK & LIUPIN: These are two characters who live at an operatic 
pitch, so they find great consolation in the hyper-political musical 
dramas of Verdi and Wagner.  Music-loving wizards would also praise 
Busoni's Dr. Faustus, for its near-documentary insights into the 
wizard way of life.

DRACO & THE SLYTHERINS: They are most into whatever is currently No. 
#1 at the boxoffice. Their ambition promotes whatever will help 
Slytherin right now. Slytherin's inability to pick the most 
successful companies has resulted in considerable internal criticism.

HAGRID: He favors organ music, which can be inflated to heroic and 
superhuman porportions. Hagrid most favors Buxtehude, JS Bach, and 
Handel.

DOBBY & WINKY: They would favor spirituals, the international anthems 
of the oppressed and poor in spirit.

  - CMC