One of the odd things about shall we say "classical" earworms is that everything gets connected up in the wrong way, and sometimes even some earwormy bit from one piece gets connected to another one from a different piece, different composer/period/style etc.
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Originally posted by Richard Barrett View PostOne of the odd things about shall we say "classical" earworms is that everything gets connected up in the wrong way, and sometimes even some earwormy bit from one piece gets connected to another one from a different piece, different composer/period/style etc.
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Originally posted by vinteuil View Post... I'm not sure I understand this - tho' I feel there might be something interesting behind it. Could you be more specific - some examples?
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Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View PostOnly today, listening to the Britten Violin Concerto, there were various points at which it could quite harmoniously have transitioned into the various influences on aural display: Bartok's two violin concertos, Prokofiev's second, and one of Shostakovitch's, can't remember which at the moment. Sometimes when "earworming" a particular work I find it naturally heading to something else by another composer, then wondering what both composers might have thought about such juxtapositioning!
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Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View PostSometimes when "earworming" a particular work I find it naturally heading to something else by another composer, then wondering what both composers might have thought about such juxtapositioning!
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Originally posted by vinteuil View Post... that seems to me to flow from our human tendency to (over-) find patterns in things rather than anything innate in such ear-worms
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Originally posted by vinteuil View Post... that seems to me to flow from our human tendency to (over-) find patterns in things rather than anything innate in such ear-worms
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Tendencies to see connections are a good thing so long as taken, not literally, but by way of compensating for over-analytical dependency. It would be nice were they to be true, but I wouldn't be putting my money on it!
*(By that I probably mean Sartre's term "contingent").
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Originally posted by Sir Velo View Post
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