What does music give us?
February 20th 2008 00:50
A headache? It depends on what you’re listening to. Some of it amounts to noise pollution, but really I can’t think of an example of a high enough noise pollution standard, because I don’t usually listen to that type of music long enough to find out what it is!
A shock? Sometimes – I was listening to a track by The Peaches yesterday and almost did a double-take because I thought my ears needed cleaning out – it turns out they didn’t. I won’t share the content, although Peaches fans will perhaps know the song I’m talking about.
A yawn? Again sometimes. There are only so many bands with the same generic male vocal and guitar sound I can handle. It’s a bit like the 90s when there were a whole lot of women singing those over-produced power ballads – sterile, formulaic and without much soul.
Classical music for me is “home”, and everything else runs a poor second to it. For me it’s a rich world of (sometimes) heart-wrenching melody, and contrasting this are the displays of humour and irony, the ebb and flow of dramatic tension pulling the emotions around, and the manifestation of various national psyches. Lastly, it’s a world where a very personal relationship with the many great composers grows - their orchestral idioms are as individual as each of our own speaking voices, and it’s amazing how easy it is to love some of those “voices” more than others.
Enough said for today I think!
A shock? Sometimes – I was listening to a track by The Peaches yesterday and almost did a double-take because I thought my ears needed cleaning out – it turns out they didn’t. I won’t share the content, although Peaches fans will perhaps know the song I’m talking about.
A yawn? Again sometimes. There are only so many bands with the same generic male vocal and guitar sound I can handle. It’s a bit like the 90s when there were a whole lot of women singing those over-produced power ballads – sterile, formulaic and without much soul.
Classical music for me is “home”, and everything else runs a poor second to it. For me it’s a rich world of (sometimes) heart-wrenching melody, and contrasting this are the displays of humour and irony, the ebb and flow of dramatic tension pulling the emotions around, and the manifestation of various national psyches. Lastly, it’s a world where a very personal relationship with the many great composers grows - their orchestral idioms are as individual as each of our own speaking voices, and it’s amazing how easy it is to love some of those “voices” more than others.
Enough said for today I think!
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Thanks for stopping by. Agreed - I love some modern music too. I guess I'm just picky about it!!
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