It's surely no wonder that sensitivity to music varies from person to person. My headmaster had no feeling for music whatever and could net even recognise the national anthem. Yet a friend told me her mother literaly burst into tears when hearing Barber's Adagio. What has always baffled me is how people can listen to Radio -One-style 'rock' music all day (builders, for instance). The only conclusion I can reach is that they aren't 'listening' to it as you or I would listen to Monteverdi or Shostakovitch. Yet the music that means most to people who aren't specialist listeners is the piece they associate with significant times in their lives . Hence programmes such as 'inheritance tracks' , where well-known people try to explain why some of the worst music I have ever heard is so valuable to them.
The Earworm Thread
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Originally posted by kernelbogey View PostDoes anyone get earworms of bits of music that they haven't heard recently? That is, an earworm arriving apparently unprovoked?
I had the opening timp motif from Britten’s violin concerto on the brain / in the ear for a day last week for no apparent reason and months since I last listened to it…
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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Originally posted by smittims View PostIt's surely no wonder that sensitivity to music varies from person to person. My headmaster had no feeling for music whatever and could net even recognise the national anthem. Yet a friend told me her mother literaly burst into tears when hearing Barber's Adagio. What has always baffled me is how people can listen to Radio -One-style 'rock' music all day (builders, for instance). The only conclusion I can reach is that they aren't 'listening' to it as you or I would listen to Monteverdi or Shostakovitch. Yet the music that means most to people who aren't specialist listeners is the piece they associate with significant times in their lives . Hence programmes such as 'inheritance tracks' , where well-known people try to explain why some of the worst music I have ever heard is so valuable to them.
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Originally posted by smittims View PostIt's surely no wonder that sensitivity to music varies from person to person. My headmaster had no feeling for music whatever and could net even recognise the national anthem. Yet a friend told me her mother literaly burst into tears when hearing Barber's Adagio. What has always baffled me is how people can listen to Radio -One-style 'rock' music all day (builders, for instance). The only conclusion I can reach is that they aren't 'listening' to it as you or I would listen to Monteverdi or Shostakovitch. Yet the music that means most to people who aren't specialist listeners is the piece they associate with significant times in their lives . Hence programmes such as 'inheritance tracks' , where well-known people try to explain why some of the worst music I have ever heard is so valuable to them.
On the construction sites where I work, radios have been banned for over 20 years. Not heard RadioOne played on a site for over ten years when the site manager turned a blind eye to this.
Most people do not listen and analyse music. I think is something unique to classical music and jazz.
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Originally posted by kernelbogey View PostI've not read the whole of this thread but I have been wondering about the following question (which may have been answered by some previous posts).
Does anyone get earworms of bits of music that they haven't heard recently? That is, an earworm arriving apparently unprovoked?
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'I am a bit more open minded with music these days'.
...can this really be the same Ian Thumwood who said only recently that he was 'coming to hate Brahms'?
You didn't say which part of my post was a generalisation. It was, in fact, simply meant to convey my own summary impression of what I have heard, so inevitably that involves generalising. Surely there is a place for generalisation. Many wise sayings are generalisations.
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Originally posted by Ian Thumwood View PostMost people do not listen and analyse music. I think is something unique to classical music and jazz.It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.
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Originally posted by french frank View Post
When we started FoR3 back c 2003 it was the way I saw people discussing jazz on the messageboard that made me certain that FoR3 must insist that jazz was essential to what Radio 3 provided (and also to suspect that there was 'R3 jazz' and 'R2 jazz'!). The fact that jazz doesn't interest me didn't prevent me defending it when there were those who wanted a 'classical only' R3 - and no popular music 'like jazz'. Discussions about pop music seem to focus disproportionately on the performers and topical news about them performers rather than on the music (certainly in any technical way).
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Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
That's coz there really ain't that much technically to talk about with pop music - that's my generalisation, at any rate!It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.
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Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
That's coz there really ain't that much technically to talk about with pop music - that's my generalisation, at any rate!
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