All will readily admit that a first impression, however striking, is weakened when followed by an immediate repetition. Would ever a poet think of repeating half of his poem; a dramatist a whole act; a novelist a whole chapter? Such a proposition would be at once rejected as childish. Why should it be otherwise with …
Category: Music
What Meaning can be derived from Music
Embodied musical meaning is in short a production of expectation, if on the basis of past experience a present stimulus leads us to expect a more-or-less definite consequent musical event then that stimulus has meaning. Emotion and Meaning in Music by Leonard B. Meyer Musical meaning comes from the comparison and transformation of musical material, …
Why that Song is stuck in your head
Today we go into the world of music, Some songs don’t just stick in your head, they change the music landscape forever. I have always had an ear for music and from an early age developed an interested I picked up a lot of my knowledge of music from my friends who were learning …