Why music moves us

Bob-Dubery

And why nearly all of us are musical one way or another....
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/7291718/Why-does-music-move-us.html

Now... I am amazed to find out that there is an interval known as an augmented 4th. How is that different from a diminished 5th?

DonovanB

X-rated Bob wrote Now... I am amazed to find out that there is an interval known as an augmented 4th. How is that different from a diminished 5th?

One's an optimist and the other is a pessimist...

PeteM

DonovanB wrote
X-rated Bob wrote Now... I am amazed to find out that there is an interval known as an augmented 4th. How is that different from a diminished 5th?
One's an optimist and the other is a pessimist...

You're right - one of them is sharp and the other is a little flat.

Squonk

Interesting Article, and the author points to how you are brought up that determines a lot of your music apprecaition.

Another interesting point is the experiments with Babies, where playing them Blur put them in a better mood than Mozart, The other day at Baby City I did indeed see some strange Music CD's for Babies, Metallica, Police and Dire Straits all reworked in a soothing arrangement to put your baby in a good mood! ?

Squonk

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Jack-Flash-Jr

Holy cow, this was a priceless comment from the article:

One composer that definitely does not move anything is Mahler. His music stays resolutely in the same place for hour after hour after hour after hour after hour. Take the entire operatic output of Wagner, Strauss, Verdi, Mozart, Schreker, Haydn, Handel and Puccini, play them without a break and I can guarantee that your bum will love you far more than if you put on one single work of Mahler. That music just does not stop. It will not stop. You get up and scream for it to stop. It ignores you. It just goes on and on and on and on and on. How many codas does the third symphony have? I stopped counting. Someone once told me that the Berlin Philharmonic did not play a crucial passage in the final movement of the ninth for Bernstein because they didn't like him. I tried to listen for this passage and yet all I heard were brass. Screaming, shouting, yelling, blaring, wailing, howling. If they did not play a passage, I'd be damned if I could find it. Mahler stands as a monument to motionlessness. He shows magnificently that a unique talent is not necessarily a great one. I am now listening to Lou Reed's "This Magic Moment". That lasts three minutes and forty seconds. It says everything that Mahler never managed to say in the millions of hours of his "symphonic music" (just what the HELL is symphonic about Mahler anyways?)

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Squonk wrote Interesting Article, and the author points to how you are brought up that determines a lot of your music apprecaition.

Another interesting point is the experiments with Babies, where playing them Blur put them in a better mood than Mozart, The other day at Baby City I did indeed see some strange Music CD's for Babies, Metallica, Police and Dire Straits all reworked in a soothing arrangement to put your baby in a good mood! ?

Yeah I heard some really cool Rolling Stones songs reworked as lullabies the other day too. crazy world... Where was that stuff when I was a Bambino... I got the Beatles... The real thing ?

Bob-Dubery

Squonk wrote Interesting Article, and the author points to how you are brought up that determines a lot of your music apprecaition.

A friend of mine raised her daughters on a steady diet of U2, Pink Floyd, Moody Blues, the Stones and even the Incredible String Band, also bluegrass, celtic folk and ...errmm... Burl Ives.

Her daughters now protest that they have a problem enjoying "normal" music. Though I notice that the youngest has now managed to make whatever mental jumps were necessary to allow her to appreciate Lady Gaga.

Jack-Flash-Jr

X-rated Bob wrote
Squonk wrote Interesting Article, and the author points to how you are brought up that determines a lot of your music apprecaition.
A friend of mine raised her daughters on a steady diet of U2, Pink Floyd, Moody Blues, the Stones and even the Incredible String Band, also bluegrass, celtic folk and ...errmm... Burl Ives.

Her daughters now protest that they have a problem enjoying "normal" music. Though I notice that the youngest has now managed to make whatever mental jumps were necessary to allow her to appreciate Lady Gaga.

That's cool but... having two little ones the most important thing to remember is to play the right stuff at the right times. Rage Against the Machine ain't gonna make the eina feel better (or actually it might) and over bludgeoning them with Metallica daily might stunt all types of growth.