Your Music-related Resolutions for 2013

[ahinton]

I'm hoping to give up playing the saxophone.. it's rather like giving up shouting.

Nonsense! And please don't!

[teamsaint]

It's best to fall asleep just as Schubert 9 commences, rather than actually "during" it...

Old Franz isn't going to win Classical music "Man of the Year" this year, is he?

[hmvman]

Old Franz isn't going to win Classical music "Man of the Year" this year, is he?

Well he did get about 3 weeks to himself on R3 this year, though!

[teamsaint]

Well he did get about 3 weeks to himself on R3 this year, though!

so there is a moral for those going for the prize next year....anyway wasn't it 2 months !?!

[cloughie]

Just do the music I want to do in 2013!

[hmvman]

....anyway wasn't it 2 months !?!

It might've been...or did it just seem like it?

[ahinton]

Old Franz isn't going to win Classical music "Man of the Year" this year, is he?

I neither know nor care, my remark being confined as it was to just one of his works and having no interest in any case in the obsession with competitiveness in everything and nothing that appears to seek to determine that we should all recognise that there has to be such one-upmanship in everything...

[teamsaint]

I neither know nor care, my remark being confined as it was to just one of his works and having no interest in any case in the obsession with competitiveness in everything and nothing that appears to seek to determine that we should all recognise that there has to be such one-upmanship in everything...

AH, I couldn't agree more about competitiveness....just a little throwaway comment intended for a smile... might just give the 9th a spin today.........

[mercia]

2) Dedicate more time to active rather than passive listening with headphones on the computer.

what's the difference between active and passive listening ?

[ahinton]

AH, I couldn't agree more about competitiveness

Yes - it seems to invade and pervade everything these days - as though one cannot observe anyone's involvement in any activity without the spectre of Sir Bryce Forsooth punctuating it with stale jokes. As I implied in the thread about soaps here recently, our economically challenged times might well benefit from the savings arising from the merger of two of them into EastArchers; on that principle, perhaps we might also welcome StrictLeeds come Masterchef, where Sir Bryce's inanities would give way to Fanny Waterbath and Michel Roux Jr. would judge contestants' preparation of a classic French dish featuring fox trotters.

Speaking of Masterchef (I digress, I know, but I'll do so only briefly!), my customary irritation at the oft-repeated introductory bit that runs "only an élite group of chefs holds two Michelin stars - Michel Roux Junior is one of them" gave way to amusement last week when the finalists all had to strut their stuff at The Fat Duck at Bray in a programme in which Heston Blumenthal himself omitted to put in an appearance, which I thought was a pity, since he could have spiced up that bit of spiel as "only an élite group of chefs holds two Michelin stars - and I hope that I never become one of them"...

Anyway - swiftly back to the topic, methinks...

[MrGongGong]

what's the difference between active and passive listening ?

Maybe to do with listening strategies ?

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/07494469600640071

http://aural-initiative.com/IRproject.pdf

http://www.minuteoflistening.org/

[Thropplenoggin]

what's the difference between active and passive listening ?

To my mind, when I am doing nothing other than listening to the music being played. Eyes closed, o'the chaise longue. This is active.

Passive would be as now - headphones on, Bach's Magnificat doing its beautiful thing, and despicable me writing this whilst it does so.

[ahinton]

To my mind, when I am doing nothing other than listening to the music being played. Eyes closed, o'the chaise longue. This is active.

Passive would be as now - headphones on, Bach's Magnificat doing its beautiful thing, and despicable me writing this whilst it does so.

"Active listening" is listening; "passive listening" is not listening.

[MrGongGong]

"Active listening" is listening; "passive listening" is not listening.

Maybe you are making the distinction between "hearing" and "listening" ?

I do think that the theorists of electroacoustic music have a lot to teach us all about modes of listening

[Thropplenoggin]

"Active listening" is listening; "passive listening" is not listening.

I hadn't realised you were an expert on all the capabilities of the conscious/sub-conscious mind. I doff my pith at your eye-watering use of semantics and shall await more profound philosophical and neurological insights.