At the heart of Music
Created | Updated Apr 21, 2005
Now, I've been discussing music with my friends for as long as I can remember, and I just decided that I might as well share my view and thoughts about music with all you (very nice euphimism should be placed here).
We all know that music is meant to entertain and hopefully make a person feel a certain way, and we also know that music has changed through the years. Does that mean that our perceptions and feeling change with the times?
In the elizabethan england period, the music would have been played with wind, string, and percussion instruments, as well as vocals (wich was the only type of music the churches allowed in and around the gregarian times).
Now of course technology has advanced since then, and we now have guitars, and synthesizers (correct me if my spelling is a little off), but music is still music, and that would mean for example that slow, perhaps minor chorded songs would have a negative and depressing effect on the listener.
If the music from this time period, with the effect mentionned above, would music from the 1800's with the same tune have the same effect? Now the difference there would be what instruments are being played, and it's obvious that different instruments also have different emotional effects (If you find that this is making no sense whatsoever, don't worry. I'm even writing it and I don't understand half the stuff I write).
I heard that todays rock music has depressing effects, and also that some music makes you smarter, eg. Motzart and Yes. But there are so many different types of music out there, not just the basic groupes like country, rock, and jazz.
For instance the band Yes, which some of you might have heard about, has totally ackward music. It's so advanced and complicated, that it brings out emotions that some people might not even know they had. Jon Andersons harmonies, Steve Hows intense and totally off the scale guitar playing, and the wacky new keyboard players well, bad example. But the music is so very complex, that if you took it and through it into the old times, and had them play it on thier instruments, what would the effect be?
We all know that music is meant to entertain and hopefully make a person feel a certain way, and we also know that music has changed through the years. Does that mean that our perceptions and feeling change with the times?
In the elizabethan england period, the music would have been played with wind, string, and percussion instruments, as well as vocals (wich was the only type of music the churches allowed in and around the gregarian times).
Now of course technology has advanced since then, and we now have guitars, and synthesizers (correct me if my spelling is a little off), but music is still music, and that would mean for example that slow, perhaps minor chorded songs would have a negative and depressing effect on the listener.
If the music from this time period, with the effect mentionned above, would music from the 1800's with the same tune have the same effect? Now the difference there would be what instruments are being played, and it's obvious that different instruments also have different emotional effects (If you find that this is making no sense whatsoever, don't worry. I'm even writing it and I don't understand half the stuff I write).
I heard that todays rock music has depressing effects, and also that some music makes you smarter, eg. Motzart and Yes. But there are so many different types of music out there, not just the basic groupes like country, rock, and jazz.
For instance the band Yes, which some of you might have heard about, has totally ackward music. It's so advanced and complicated, that it brings out emotions that some people might not even know they had. Jon Andersons harmonies, Steve Hows intense and totally off the scale guitar playing, and the wacky new keyboard players well, bad example. But the music is so very complex, that if you took it and through it into the old times, and had them play it on thier instruments, what would the effect be?
