Music Appreciation Part II
By joshua_w
@joshua_w (501)
Malaysia
September 4, 2007 4:44am CST
Why do i keep posting topics on music and its appreciation? Perhaps it's because someone who (really) listen to and appreciate music can become someone who could listen to people with the intention to really understand them.
Most of us listen to music. Not all who listen to music understand what music is really about. Really understand. Some would say music is something they could dance to. Some say music makes them feel belonged. Others say music makes them happy. All valid reasons.
Those who know; music is an expression of human emotion. Music evokes memories. A piece of good music is made better if the emotions in it are truly expressed by the musician and we, as listener feel it. And music which have a high production value and are polished in its sound because it was recorded with the best equipment but lacking in emotions may be good to listen to at first but its appeal will not last. The same analogy could be use for films. Without a good story that appeals to the human emotion, no amount of special effects or fancy camera tricks will save a bad film. We may watch it once, and then not remember about it. We will not care. An emotionally performed piece of music is so much more appealing than a polished piece of music. You can even forgive the musical flaw or even a bad sound if the performance appeal to your emotion just like a film with a good story will appeal to everyone more than one with a bad storyline but looks good to the eyes.
Too much emphasis is place on deriving pleasures from our external senses (especially our sense of sight and sound) that we've forgotten how to "feel". Could part of this obsession be reflected in the types of music people listen to these days and the films they watch? All commercial and shallow fodder that feeds our senses and not our souls. We are becoming what the media, the radio and tv station want us to be. Is it not supposed to be the other way around?
What is this discussion about? Nothing specific in particular. Just to vent my thoughts on this subject as i consider music an important aspect of my life. And your views and thoughts of what you, members of this forum, think about music, of course. Hope i did not come across as preaching here, haha.
So, what does music and music listening mean to you and what role does it play in your life. Is it just something you do or is it really an important part of your life? Feel free to give your thoughts. Hopefully, there would be more than a simple one-sentence comment like "i listen to music because it makes me feel happy". Give it some thought and expand on why it makes you happy. Something like, "i listen to music because it makes me happy. The joyous guitar sound of the Beatles "And your bird can sing" always lift my spirit up when i'm feeling down. Or something like that.
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2 responses
@michaeldadona (5684)
• Malaysia
4 Sep 07
Discussing about music is actually a must to HUMAN as it is a 'nature-nurture' learning process. Music is a combination between tangible and intangible elements and always categorized under good things with various genre of it.
What so called for 'tangible' in this case. The instruments even though it only from a simple mouth that consider as a source of the making, and the apparatus, machine and technologies as well. Having said the 'intangible' is the ideas, rhymes, rhythms and the soothe of the flowing frequency of the notes that cross our ears. That is why, for deaf person music means nothing to them.
An infant crying is totally a music to the parents which give out many interpretations on it, healthy and illness are some sort of indications and the sorting techniques.
Laughing as well a code of music with different bars and notes key on it.
Come back to your favorites pleasant music that runs for The Beatles, of course the energy transforms from the frequency output spreading that fluctuations of keys and notes triggered and electrifying the right brain become verve and plenipotentiary in creating the moods of feeling good.
That is all about music elements and I an avid/ardent fan to "Santana" the one, virtuoso. Thank You.
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@joshua_w (501)
• Malaysia
5 Sep 07
Hi Michael, as always i'm stump by your respond. You're a fan of Santana then. I loved his music too. He is a genius on guitars, can't argue with that. And yes, i do loved the music of the Beatles, in particular their later years leading to their breakup. I think they're musical genius too, especially John Lennon and George Harrison.
@rogue13xmen13 (14402)
• United States
5 Sep 07
My dear, I love music, especially classical and rock music. Most people would say that I was the daughter of Queen because of my taste in music. I sing to classical music and rock music. My family had me classically trained. I have seen two operas already, at least four classical concerts, and three rock concerts. The problem is music today is that it is too commericalized, and people care more about rhythm than listening to a story and what a song can truly express. I do not have anything against Rap, R&B, and Hip Hop, but the problem with most of the songs in these genres is that the messages are not there or the messages are very negative.
