How do you listen to instrumental music?
this could be seen as either a totally stupid question, or an interesting one. or an intersting stupid question…
basically… how do you usually listen to instrumental music if you’re trying to decipher a song’s meaning (of course generally a subjective matter) … do you sort of take everything in "passively", or is it a more analytical process? as in hearing the melodies, instrumentation, harmony, dynamics etc… and figuring out what those musical aspects might suggest in the interest of deciphering the song’s "meaning"?
i’m really curious what you have to say.. so please no short choppy statements.. (unless you’re just looking for points… and/or you find my question uninteresting)
i’m really curious what you have to say.. so please no short choppy statements.. (unless you’re just looking for points… and/or you find my question uninteresting)
i don’t WANT to know what the composer meant by a piece of music… i want to know how YOU decipher a piece of music?
i just hear everything. like i know its not exact but it will help, when we play guitar hero, there is a song the beast and the harlot, the beginning sounds so sad. there is that song the hall of the mountain king and it hits me as mean and evil, but the song as a whole, not broken down.
umm.. through speakers lol
kidding!
well what does the music signify to you?
how do YOU embrace it?
and if you want to know what the composer meant by it..
google it.. xx
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w/ ur ears….ofcourse.
must most import of all you heart and imagination.
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I listen to classical music. Personally, I just like to ‘absorb’ the sounds. The music is too beautiful for me to want to ruin it with analytical mumbo-jumbo. Meanings don’t matter much to me, either. As long as it calms my soul and soothes my spirit, well, that’s all the ‘meaning’ I need.
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i just hear everything. like i know its not exact but it will help, when we play guitar hero, there is a song the beast and the harlot, the beginning sounds so sad. there is that song the hall of the mountain king and it hits me as mean and evil, but the song as a whole, not broken down.
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Most people only "hear" music in one dimension, usually the melody. The second thing people listen for if it is prominent in the song is the rhythm or "beat". In music where the melody or beat is not obvious, the average listener loses interest easily. It is in this music where the "soul" of the piece can be discovered by listening to the emotion that is created by the harmonies or "chords". The greatest music has all of these dimensions and sometimes more.
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Composer, arranger, producer, multi instrumentalist for 30 years.
I find your question opportune, indeed.
I really love music and is sensible and receptive to it since my early childhood. I listen to nearly all kind of music with pleasure; from classic, to rock, to new wave, etc. I make an exception with the rap and hi-hop genres and those popular singers who owe most of their success to their physical features and not to musical talent or creativeness.
All that interest me in music is the melody and sounds. In fact, I never pay any attention to the possible meaning of the lyrics, contrary to what many does, seemingly.
Music corresponds to a “state of the mind” for me; meaning, I listen to certain songs depending the mood of the moment.
Subsequently, I am saddened each time someone peremptorily states that Richard Wagner and Richard Strauss are “Nietschean music” for far-rightist and Nazi, or that Joan Baez or Genesis are for leftist or green activists, etc, etc. I just never pay attention to lyrics which I just found stupid, meaningless or non-objective each time I attempted to carefully read and understand it; as I do not feel concerned at all by political or ideological stances chosen by such singer or music group. Those consideration just bore me because I think that melodies and musical creativity totally irrelevant to politics, religion and the like.
Politically speaking I stand by U.S. Conservative values, but I do appreciate listening to songs such as Here’s to you, by Joan Baez, and to Wagner and Strauss as well, to exemplify this contrast.
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when u talk about instrumental music it has a very wide septrum to it and also does have a very stronng sicence as in the how actually the musically piece is composed.
but to appericiate or to be able to enjoy the music, its not always, absolutely essential to totally understand it,
basically i would suggest that u listen to music randomly and to enjoy a particular piece of composition listen to it more offenly, when u do this the sounds become more familiar n then u can actually start to understand the daynamics of it.
may be not in actual thoretical sense, but altleast to the level where u may really start enjoying the sounds.
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