What do you love about music

[wtwt5237]

Is it just a tune that strikes you? Is it something about human life or good and bad that strikes you?
If it's just a tune of a song, how can you define a music piece as well written or not, because nearly all kinds of music can convey some kind of feeling to you. Wrong answer?
Then it must be something moral, because only music that makes you think can endure listening to over and over again, then well-written or bad-written music can be distinguished. But problem is, isn't it the tune of music that catches you first? I guess many of us here like the tune of a music piece more than its so-called theme.
And do you think you can really 'learn big things' from music?

 

[doctortornface]

Woo, we are getting deep. I love music,it's pretty much all I do,I rarely watch TV or go to the movies or do much else,I have been serious about it since I was eight when I bought my very first single. It has educated me, amused me, made me cry, given me legend and philosophy.All life is here. From the simplest to the mathematical complex. Bad music is only music that fails to reach it's intended audience.

 

[methodistgirl]

I like music that is soothing. To me the oldest recorded music is found
in the book of psalms where King David was the composer. It told of his
troubles and his successes in life. Praise and worship music can really lift
you up or touch your heart. I have the gift of music or I couldn't play it
on any instrument except the drums. I can't play drums at all. I've tried
many times to play them. Anything from the smallest piccalo to the
mighty pipe organ I can play it. If I can't play an instrument at the time
I will listen to a cd or let my computer play the music.
judy tooley

 

[Krummhorn]

Music does convey feelings within me ... I sometimes refer to a musical piece as a "tone poem". I tend to consider the whole piece and not just a single line tune when listening. I revel in its structure and in that way fully appreciate the piece as it was written by the composer. Pictures At An Exhibition is a great example of tone poem composing for me.

When composing, I will sometimes use a visual element for inspiration and other times reflect on spoken words and visualize a picture of those words. When improvising at the organ console, sometimes I get completely mesmerized by the pipe work, and become one with the instrument, breathing in, and feeling it expell air with every note played.

Now, I really must get a decent portable digital recorder so that I can record those pieces and import them into my notation software program. When those trance like inspirational improvs end, so does any memory of what I played ... a real bummer :bawl:

I'll have to ponder about learning big things from music a while longer ...

 

[Crash2991]

What I love about music is it that it has some power. It can be used to do so many things. It can be used from entertainment to making a person seeing the world in a different view. Music can be used to give an army morale, or simply be used to relax to.

The reason I like writing and playing is that I can make people like music and be entertained. I personally like the drumset because I can make people feel that groove.

 

[Oneiros]

So many things... It turns the often conflicting emotions of life into something beautiful. And beauty justifies life, for me anyway. Maybe I've been reading too much Nietzsche.

There's also its spiritually enlightening power, like Beethoven said: "When I open my eyes I must sigh, and must despise the world which does not know that music is higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy."

And the way it draws you in to experience something first hand. What other art form is so deeply engaging? In this way it's excellent at communicating profound ideas.

Could go on for hours...

 

[leedeb]

Is it just a tune that strikes you? Is it something about human life or good and bad that strikes you?
If it's just a tune of a song, how can you define a music piece as well written or not, because nearly all kinds of music can convey some kind of feeling to you. Wrong answer?
Then it must be something moral, because only music that makes you think can endure listening to over and over again, then well-written or bad-written music can be distinguished. But problem is, isn't it the tune of music that catches you first? I guess many of us here like the tune of a music piece more than its so-called theme.
And do you think you can really 'learn big things' from music?

I think hearing music often reassures a person that there is still beauty and life in the world. As long as there is a living creature, some type of music can be made - it may not be what we are used to hearing but birds will sing, humans will sing, tap stones or sticks etc. Sometimes a tune connects with your emotions of the moment and all of the sudden, that particular piece takes on a different meaning - maybe today and for a week, it is beautiful to you but next month while still appreciating the beauty, the same meaning has faded.

Can you learn big things from music? I am not sure about that but since very few people can stand to hear the same note played over and over at the same rhythm, I think you learn there must be change, contrast in all things. You must have some sorrow to appreciate great joy, total dark makes light seem that much brighter.

Deb

 

[methodistgirl]

pipe organ

I just had a practice session with my local church organ and played
some classical to contemperory gospel music. I just love some of the
new gospel that is out now. It gives the pipe organ quite a workout
as well as myself. I still have a hard time reaching the bass pedals.
I wished I could find the right shoes so that I can which will have to
be platform shoes with a soft bottom. I don't want to do harm to
the organ.
judy tooley:smirk:

 

[lyrica]

I love the fact that music can evoke emotion and make you feel happy, sad, sexy and so much more inbetween. Existance without it would be very dull!
Im sure thats agreed....

 

[methodistgirl]

what I love about music?

I can't agree more! I even have the right music for any holiday even
Halloween with some new age and Tocata & fugue. That one I know
is played at that time even though it was written by Bach as a religious
piece for maybe a catholic mass or something. Jazz can leave you
feeling sexy or a church hymn that lifts up your spirits and make you
feel like a big burden has left you. That is what I like about music.
I have another question for all of us musicians. Do you enjoy playing
your music like I do? I have a ball playing the church pipe organ or
sit and play the piano or guitar as if I'm loving an old friend for hours.
Let me know something yall!
judy tooley

 

[Violinschlüssel]

Music is my other voice, the one I use instead of the "usual" one when I cannot express what I've got inside in my hard or too emotional moments. It surely depends on the mood: when I'm particularly happy, it's loud, dynamic music; when I feel down, it's slow, solemn music; music is the means by which my mood can be cheered up when I'm sad, and the means by which I can calm my nerves when I'm even too excited or agitated. Music runs through my veins, it's part of my DNA.

 

[tomjackson]

Music is going with me everywhere. It makes me feel better when I have a bad day, it's my company when I'm alone, I've listened to if I want, and not if I don't.

Just I can't live without music because it takes part of my live!

Tom.

 

[melly77]

I like music because it stays ith me everywhere I go. I think about it and carry it in my heart

and also on technological devices, like this mobile music site - I download music to my cell phone and just listen...

 

[Corno Dolce]

Hi Krummhorn,

I have since earliest childhood always looked upon music as a tone poem - in many cases, an epic tone poem or a rhapsodic tone poem. Since music and poetry are so intimately related to each other, I enjoy them best together.

Cheers,

Corno Dolce

 

[pnoom]

What I love about music is that is the perfect expression of human creativity. It actively reaches out to people and grabs them. You can't ignore it like you can a book or a painting. If music is playing, you will notice it.

And it's universal (this applies to paintings, too, of course). Music can be understood by anyone who hears it.

 

[CScoot]

It's amazing that not only is playing music something you are or are not born to do, but that a specific instrument speaks to you. I wanted to play drums since I was a wee little spud. I used to get my brother's drum sticks (he played only snare in the school band) and turn my folks' trash cans upside down and bang on them. The drums just 'made sense' to me. At the age of 46, they still give me a rush. I like playing praise/worship material, progressive rock, groove. Yet, I look at someone playing piano, guitar and think, "How in the world can you do that?"

Music moves the human soul. It's emotion. I've noticed that people lose all objectivity about a band they've listened to since childhood. Have you noticed that? They'll talk about the members of that band as if they were virtuosos. You're sitting there going, "Are they serious?" Yet - it's because it reminds them of growing up - home, etc. It's because it moves them. I do it too.

 

[jnbammer]

I agree with the emotional aspects that it evokes mentioned above. I also like that it makes me remember good and bad things from my past. There are some songs or music that are extremely nostalgic and others that drive me nuts. I am very analytical by nature, so music provides an escape for me that is hard to find otherwise.

 

[pnoom]

Perhaps the most accurate answer for me would be...

EVERYTHING!

 

[Mahlon]

This is what I love about music

"The purpose of art is not the momentary ejection of adrenaline but the gradual and lifelong construction of a state of wonder and serenity."- Glenn Gould

 

[methodistgirl]

Music is also my sanctuary when I need inspiration as well as using
either the pipe organ or piano as my altar.
judy tooley