Music

[Regina]

I'm on a roadtrip now. Just had a CD of Trevor Pinnock with The English Concert playing Bach Brandenberg Concertos blasting in the car through some mountains in Tennessee.
That was glorious. Completely perfect music.

My PhD is in Music Theory and Composition.
I LOVE Stravinsky and Schoenberg and have written many analytical papers on both of their works.
I listen to many styles though.

Brought plenty of Gould playing Bach for the trip. The Partitas and such...

In the hotel now. This recording in the car. Yum.

 

[Lyla]

After reading dr peat's articles and some of the works he referenced, I started listening to more and more classical music, mainly Mozart, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky and Debussy.

 

[Obi-wan]

My Style

 

[Pointless]

You wouldn't want to blast voodoo drumming all day, but listening to alternative or experimental music is about exploring, challenge, and risk-taking. And just because rats couldn't figure out the music doesn't mean there's no logic. Many ethnic musical genres like Ghanaian drumming and Javanese Gamelan have very complex but logical systems of rhythm and tuning.

A closed mind is not conducive to a rewarding life.

 

[x-ray peat]

I'm on a roadtrip now. Just had a CD of Trevor Pinnock with The English Concert playing Bach Brandenberg Concertos blasting in the car through some mountains in Tennessee.
That was glorious. Completely perfect music.

My PhD is in Music Theory and Composition.
I LOVE Stravinsky and Schoenberg and have written many analytical papers on both of their works.
I listen to many styles though.

Brought plenty of Gould playing Bach for the trip. The Partitas and such...

In the hotel now. This recording in the car. Yum.

Did you ever look into the various mind/body effects of different types of classical music? I would bet your mood would have been very different driving through Tennessee with Schoenberg instead of with Bach.

 

[Pointless]

I'm on a roadtrip now. Just had a CD of Trevor Pinnock with The English Concert playing Bach Brandenberg Concertos blasting in the car through some mountains in Tennessee.
That was glorious. Completely perfect music.

My PhD is in Music Theory and Composition.
I LOVE Stravinsky and Schoenberg and have written many analytical papers on both of their works.
I listen to many styles though.

Brought plenty of Gould playing Bach for the trip. The Partitas and such...

In the hotel now. This recording in the car. Yum.

We seem to have very similar taste in music. I also studied composition and theory, but undergrad.

 

[x-ray peat]

You wouldn't want to blast voodoo drumming all day, but listening to alternative or experimental music is about exploring, challenge, and risk-taking. And just because rats couldn't figure out the music doesn't mean there's no logic. Many ethnic musical genres like Ghanaian drumming and Javanese Gamelan have very complex but logical systems of rhythm and tuning.

A closed mind is not conducive to a rewarding life.

Since this is a health forum I was merely pointing out that certain types of music have a better health impact than others. If you are interested in your health than you should listen to music that doesn't drive your cortisol levels up or induces a state of negativity because of its lyrics. Calling other people closed minded because of that is more indicative of an authoritarian closed mind than preferring Handel over Megadeth.

 

[Pointless]

Since this is a health forum I was merely pointing out that certain types of music have a better health impact than others. If you are interested in your health than you should listen to music that doesn't drive your cortisol levels up or induces a state of negativity because of their lyrics. Calling other people closed minded because of that is more indicative of an authoritarian closed mind than preferring Handel over Megadeth.

People have all kinds of preferences. That doesn't bother me. But blasting a rat with voodoo drumming and using that to enforce a cultural standard reeks of Nazi science to me. You should look up the Nazi critique of Modern art while we're expanding each other's minds. They called foreigners' music degenerate. They probably would've felt the same way about those Black folk's rock 'n' roll or "Voodoo drumming".

 

[x-ray peat]

People have all kinds of preferences. That doesn't bother me. But blasting a rat with voodoo drumming and using that to enforce a cultural standard reeks of Nazi science to me. You should look up the Nazi critique of Modern art while we're expanding each other's minds. They called foreigners' music degenerate. They probably would've felt the same way about those Black folk's rock 'n' roll or "Voodoo drumming".

You should have stopped at closed minded. Now you are just embarrassing yourself with the Nazi comparison.
I am not telling anyone what to listen to or calling any type of music degenerate. If you want to ignore the science, which is much more than one study on rats and voodoo music, as well as more than 3,000 years of collective knowledge of the harmful effects of certain types of music, then go right ahead. But please spare us with the SJW faux indignation about discriminating against "those Black folk's rock 'n' roll."

 

[Anders86]

No need for any poor-man's metal. Meet the Alpha/Omega (and made more than a decade earlier).........

I call your poor-man`s metal


I listen to about everything, Black Metal, House, Rap, Pop, Classic etc.
I like to follow up on the current popular music like Rae Sremmurd, Sigrid, Khalid

Music is art!

 

[Kyle M]

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[Anders86]

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That`s definitely the cutest thing I watched today!

 

[Zpol]

I'm on a roadtrip now. Just had a CD of Trevor Pinnock with The English Concert playing Bach Brandenberg Concertos blasting in the car through some mountains in Tennessee.
That was glorious. Completely perfect music.

My PhD is in Music Theory and Composition.
I LOVE Stravinsky and Schoenberg and have written many analytical papers on both of their works.
I listen to many styles though.

Brought plenty of Gould playing Bach for the trip. The Partitas and such...

In the hotel now. This recording in the car. Yum.

PhD in music, truly awesome.
I love pretty much all classical composers , but theres something about Mozart's compositions moves my soul.

As a sick person, especially during time of extreme illness, when you don't know if you will survive and if you do what kind of will you be left with. Times like this I put on Mozart. It makes me feel connected to the universe beyond my body. Like my human form and all my human experiences like sickness, healthiness, sadness, happiness, etc are all so trivial and meaningless, but not in a nihilistic way. Like I'm indirectly remembering the fact that our atoms are particles that came the stars, and one day our sun will die and we'll all be blown to smithereens and our energy, the very same energy that we are talking about on this forum (call it ATP or what have you) will be back out in the vastness of space performing some other function.
Certain pieces bring a tear to my eye, that's obvious!
I love other composers too, and many other pieces bring me the same feeling, but not as intensely as Mozart.

Also, classical really helps during anxiety attacks.

Also, i like blues and classic country when I'm not feeling the best, it's comforting in some way. Probably because a) it was the start of a whole new era in music b) it's awesome c) I guess I like to hear about other peoples suffering when I'm suffering!

Other stuff I love I typically listen when I'm in a relatively feeling okay.

Seriously loving this thread, I hope more people chime in.

 

[theLaw]

I call your poor-man`s metal


I listen to about everything, Black Metal, House, Rap, Pop, Classic etc.
I like to follow up on the current popular music like Rae Sremmurd, Sigrid, Khalid

Music is art!

I guess I'll have to be the old fart here............I just don't understand this screaming in place of singing.

Once you get more aggressive than Slayer, it sounds like diminishing returns. Similar to how torture-porn like Hostel/Saw tried to "improve" on the horror films of the 1980s; more is not always better.

But I'm sure my parents would say the same about Metallica.

 

[Zpol]

I just don't understand this screaming in place of singing

Same here. I used to be a metal girl, not so much anymore but for some reason around autumn I crave some death metal, and Iron Maiden. Not sure why this only happens during autumn! Also, I used to date a guy in a metal band, I was around during much of the creative process. This guy is a literal guitar virtuoso (his brother is a classically trained pianist, their home life was weird!). In his band the screaming vocals were more of an after effect, the guitar was more of the focal point. But other bands it's the opposite, the screaming vocals are the thing, and I give them credit, it's an art form in and of itself. Some of these vocalists truly put their heart and soul into it. Not to mention the training they do to prevent actual damage to the vocal chords after all that screaming. And then of course, like any genre, there are some bands who are just entirely lacking in creativity and only trying to be some one they aren't or sell out.

Unfortunately, my mom liked Metallica, so I stopped listing to it! (I was an awful teenager) The only thing she didn't want me listening too was Nirvana-In Utero (because of the dead fetuses on the insert and the song 'Rape me'), and anything Marilyn Manson (because she thought he was glorifying Charles Manson).

 

[theLaw]

Same here. I used to be a metal girl, not so much anymore but for some reason around autumn I crave some death metal, and Iron Maiden. Not sure why this only happens during autumn! Also, I used to date a guy in a metal band, I was around during much of the creative process. This guy is literal guitar virtuoso (his brother is a classically trained pianist, their home life was weird!). In his band the screaming vocals were more of an after effect, the guitar was more of the focal point. But other bands it's the opposite, the screaming vocals are the thing, and I give them credit, it's an art form in and of itself. Some of these vocalists truly put their hear and soul into it. Not to mention the training they do to prevent actual damage to the vocal chords after all that screaming. And then of course, like any genre, there are some bands who are just entirely lacking in creativity and only trying to be some one they aren't or sell out.

Unfortunately, my mom liked Metallica, so I stopped listing to it! (I was an awful teenager) The only thing she didn't want me listening too was Nirvana-In Utero (because of the dead fetuses on the insert and the song 'Rape me'), and anything Marilyn Manson (because she thought he was glorifying Charles Manson).

Ironically, MM is usually the voice of reason when tragedy strikes.

Strange how kids of the 80s forgot all about the Parent's Music Resource Center and Satanic Panic. They're were actually trials over hidden-messages in metal records.

Not to mention the kids who went to jail (and one sentenced to death) for essentially wearing metal t-shirts:

West Memphis Three - Wikipedia

 

[Zpol]

Ironically, MM is usually the voice of reason when tragedy strikes.

True. But most people don't want to agree with him because his perspectives challenge their own deep seeded subjective beliefs, this enrages them. It's just sad.

Strange how kids of the 80s forgot all about the Parent's Music Resource Center and Satanic Panic. They're were actually trials over hidden-messages in metal records.

Also true. I can't imagine what it was like during the time of the Manson murders, plus all the political turmoil at the time. Must have been frightening. I do vaguely remember the Memphis three, but all seemed so distant to me at the time. I feel worse for the kids today, it's still the same story, shootings, politics, but it's getting closer to us all, even those of us who thought we were sheltered. Plus, now disease and chronic illness is on the rise... More fuel to the fire.

 

[MyUsernameHere]

Bottom line is, you should listen to music that you like. If you like it, it's good for you.

I couldn't stand listening to classical, it is absolutely mind numbingly boring to me and doesn't engage me in any way. I like modern, high energy music, like metal and psytrance. Don't care what it would do to my hormones when I wouldn't be able to stand a minute of it.

 

[Regina]

Did you ever look into the various mind/body effects of different types of classical music? I would bet your mood would have been very different driving through Tennessee with Schoenberg instead of with Bach.

Yes. But, the authoritarian environment of music schools made it a bit silly. There were a number of people doing research in Music Psychology and other Musicology depts, but nothing interesting. Music Therapy was also a Major at my school. They were all comfortable with the absurdly limited ideas that minor keys = sad; major keys = happy. That is the level of pervasive illiteracy.

Like Bach, Schoenberg is masterful at instrumentation and orchestration. He organizes his tonal palette into highly functional relationships and combinatorial harmonic structures.
I love Schoenberg's Violin Concerto.

 

[Regina]

PhD in music, truly awesome.
I love pretty much all classical composers , but theres something about Mozart's compositions moves my soul.

As a sick person, especially during time of extreme illness, when you don't know if you will survive and if you do what kind of will you be left with. Times like this I put on Mozart. It makes me feel connected to the universe beyond my body. Like my human form and all my human experiences like sickness, healthiness, sadness, happiness, etc are all so trivial and meaningless, but not in a nihilistic way. Like I'm indirectly remembering the fact that our atoms are particles that came the stars, and one day our sun will die and we'll all be blown to smithereens and our energy, the very same energy that we are talking about on this forum (call it ATP or what have you) will be back out in the vastness of space performing some other function.
Certain pieces bring a tear to my eye, that's obvious!
I love other composers too, and many other pieces bring me the same feeling, but not as intensely as Mozart.

Also, classical really helps during anxiety attacks.

Also, i like blues and classic country when I'm not feeling the best, it's comforting in some way. Probably because a) it was the start of a whole new era in music b) it's awesome c) I guess I like to hear about other peoples suffering when I'm suffering!

Other stuff I love I typically listen when I'm in a relatively feeling okay.

Seriously loving this thread, I hope more people chime in.

Mozart. So unfailingly yummy. sigh.
Anytime "The Lindsays" String Quartet play Mozart is a magnificent treat.
I have them all in individual ASV recordings, but it looks like you can stream the complete set from Amazon: