George Winston
some Enya songs
some Loreena McKennit songs

hmmm, itunes at home so I can't remember any more off the top of my head, sorry!

Here's what's in my "study" playlist, since I can't write to music that has words:
Frank Zappa - Francesco Zappa
Frank Zappa - Guitar (Discs 1 and 2)
Mozart's Sympony 39
Bach's Brandenburg Concertos
The soundtrack to The Human stain (by Rachel Portman)
Warm and Cool - Tom Verlaine
Vince Guaraldi - A Boy Named Charlie Brown, A Charlie Brown Christmas, and Charlie Brown's Holiday Hits (laugh if you must, it works for me.)

PS - also a bunch more classical stuff, but I'm not sure what your tastes are...

Philip Glass - Piano Music
Loreena McKennitt -- various works
Battlestar Galactica soundtracks

Thievery Corporation

This is almost unfair - my "sans vocals" playlist, which represents just the ones I actually loaded onto the iPod, is 12 hours long.

George Winston: Linus and Lucy: The Music of Vince Guaraldi
Kaki King - anything
Charles Solbrig - Passion for Guitar
Shadowfax - The Dreams of Children
Amost anything on the Solitudes label, though I recommend such favorites as Natual Concentration, Nurturing Rain or Stream of Dreams (birdie sounds in various selections always a plus)
Piano solos by John Tesh, Gary Jess, or Craig Linder
Piano solos by David Lanz
A variety of classical pieces, including the Brandenburg Concerto mentioned above
Soundtrack from Sense and Sensibility (the Emma Thompson version)

In the interest of furthering your scholarly success, I would be happy to provide you with a collection of my favorites.....

:)

I'll bring you a CD on Wed :)

My old printer has just printed an only marginally legible playlist, and the new printer is still sitting there in the box, leering at me. (It's so damn fancy that I'm afraid to try to set it up.) So I'll paste in the playlist here; check your mailbox (or check w/ the secretaries) tomorrow:
Bangla Dhun Ravi Shankar & Ali Akbar Khan
Sketches Daniel Lanois
Meditation Carlos Santana & Mahavishnu John McLaughlin
Skylark Sonny Rollins
Life Animus Amour
Maple Run Rick Duke
Ciaccona Arianna Savall, Bjorn Kjellemyr, Guido Morini, Marco Ambrosini, Pedro Estevan & Rolf Lislevand Nuove Musiche
Jayna's show Jayna
Acknowledgement John Coltrane
Tears In Heaven Joshua Redman
Someone To Watch Over Me Sonny Rollins

& BP is making you a CD even as we speak. You'll be relieved to know that he did not include the Gene Krupa/Buddy Rich drum battle at the beginning of "Take the 'A' Train." At least, I think he didn't . . . but ya never know, with BP . . .

wow. I am going to be a happy examinee! Thanks everybody. Now over to LimeWire...