Who in the right mind would categorize Chopin with SCARLATTI?! There is a reason why I started my Chopin station separately from my J.S. Bach and if the database is combining a Scarlatti piano sonata with Chopin's piano work, I don't know what to say. Perhaps I'm being overly picky, but I think this is a pretty serious problem. On the "similar composers" part of the description, J.S. Bach is included. I think one should at least be able to tell the musical difference between Romantic and Baroque. It's actually pretty simple, polytonality in Baroque with rather strict time signatures and less rubato. Romantic utilizes the waltz 3/4 feel with much more harmonizing, along with an extensive use of rubato and phrasing. Those two should be fairly easy to spot; I don't understand why Bach even shows up on the similar composers page. I don't know about you, but this made me pretty unhappy.
I guess for other genres of music, Pandora does a rather good job of categorizing most things, but the classical section definitely needs some work.
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