Artist	Song
Arnold Schoenberg	La Nuit Transfiguree (Menuet)
Maurice Ravel	Pavane pour une Infante defunte
Roland Kirk	Gifts and Messages
Pierre Boulez	Le marteau sans maitre (Bele Edifice)
Ravi Shankar, Chatur Lal, NC Mullick	Bimpalasi
Charles Mingus	Song With Orange
Anton Webern	Six Pieces, Op. 6, Nos. 2 & 3
Cecil Taylor	Johnny Come Lately
Igor Stravinsky	The Firebird (Infernal Dance)
Eric Dolphy	Hat and Beard
Roger Huntington Sessions	Six Pieces for Violoncello (Scherzo-Allegro)
Bill Evans	Funkallero
Charles Ives	Trio for Violin, Cello and Piano (I. Moderato)
Karlheinz Stockhausen	Thinki [edit]
Edgard Varese	Density 21.5

Comment:

OK, it's like this...I was always fascinated by that list of names in The Mothers of Invention's first album, Freak Out! You know the one, "These People Have Contributed Materially in Many Ways to Make Our Music What it is. Please Do Not Hold it Against them." And then there's a list of 180 names some you immediately know (Bob Dylan) and some nobody knows (Donna #2). So anyway, I realised a lot of the 180 were musicians and always wanted to know what they did and what they all sounded like - well here it is. Now not everyone on the list is represented on these CDs (mainly the obscure modern classicists - I just couldn't find material by them) but most are here. Tracks are listed by the name as it appears in Frank's list and, where it is not immediately obvious, the name of the band is then given afterwards. Where possible I have picked the more well known works by the artists that Zappa would have been listening too in the years leading up to the formation of The Mothers and the recording of Freak Out!However, this has not always been possible, for instance where the artist has no recorded material from that period (an example is Henry Vestine, one time member of The Mothers, who only later appeared in recorded form with Canned Heat, so I picked a song he wrote for The Heat).

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