This is so very cool: Music mimics the composer's native language.
And this: The building blocks of music are to be found in speech.
I miss Oz. He'd get it. He wouldn't say anything, but he'd get it.
Xander ,'Get It Done'
Buffista Music II: Wrath of Chaka Khan
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
Polter-Cow - Nov 28, 2004 6:40:44 pm PST #6166 of 10003
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Jon B. - Nov 28, 2004 7:19:32 pm PST #6167 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Some interesting stuff in those articles, although musicologist FAQ Girl says that this
musicologists have long emphasized that while each culture stamps a special identity onto its music, music itself has some universal qualities. For example, in virtually all cultures sound is divided into some or all of the 12 intervals that make up the chromatic scale -- that is, the scale represented by the keys on a piano.
is a gross generalisation.You need only look to Eastern countries like India to find huge exceptions to that "universal" quality.
Polter-Cow - Nov 28, 2004 7:30:38 pm PST #6168 of 10003
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
FAQ Girl's a musicologist? How hot is that?
And well, it does say virtually all, so I guess its ass is covered.
Jon B. - Nov 28, 2004 7:41:38 pm PST #6169 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
I don't think those billion other people think the rest of the world counts as "virtually all".
How hot is that?
HOTTTTT!!!!!1!
Volans - Nov 29, 2004 12:30:03 am PST #6170 of 10003
move out and draw fire
OK, tina, thanks to your rec I have ordered the Built to Spill CD! (New music, yay!)
esse - Nov 29, 2004 1:42:51 am PST #6171 of 10003
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
I finally head the John Cale version recently
I looked back, and I'm not sure if you're talking about Hallelujah , but if you are, I didn't like that version either. I just happened on one by kd lang, which I've yet to listen to properly, and I've tended towards collecting them.
I read on livejournal the other day how the original Cohen version and the Buckley version have different verses--apparently Buckley added some. And then, when Cohen recorded Hallelujah, he used Buckley's version. The ins and outs of this song get more fascinating the more I learn. And I just thought it was pretty when I first heard it.
Lyra Jane - Nov 29, 2004 4:31:49 am PST #6172 of 10003
Up with the sun
I'm not sure if you're talking about Hallelujah , but if you are, I didn't like that version either.
It's my favorite. I just like Cale's delivery and the arrangement. This might be because it was the first one i heard, in the movie Basquiat.
And SA, I didn't know Buckley had added lyrics! Do yoou remember whose journal that was in?
esse - Nov 29, 2004 6:01:51 am PST #6173 of 10003
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
Um. I can look. I should have flagged it, because at the time I thought it was really interesting.
Steph L. - Nov 29, 2004 6:03:06 am PST #6174 of 10003
I look more rad than Lutheranism
I've tended towards collecting them.
I *love* the Ari Hest version that you put on one of the CDs that you sent me.
Jon B. - Nov 29, 2004 6:03:25 am PST #6175 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
I'm not sure if you're talking about Hallelujah
Close. Pablo Picasso.