She pretty much likes nothing if it contains no lyrics. Loves things like Kate Rusby or the pop celtic stuff, but gotsta have somebody singing or she's bored.
That's funny, I'm usually the opposite. Much of the music I like is instrumental, I think the only genres where I'm usually fine with lyrics is if it's those epic choir stuff, Latin American stuff (like salsa and so on), and maybe some medieval music if it's right.
I remember one time a while back when my friend and I shared some music - I showed her that song from the Kingdom of Heaven soundtrack, Ibelin, which has an instrumental and a non-instrumental version. I liked the instrumental version more, feeling the singing in the non-instrumental version, while not bad, kind of ruined it; she, on the other hand, told me that she thought the lack of singing ruined the instrumental version.
I prefer Mozart's version of Dies Irae, actually, but Verdi's isn't bad. Pretty cool that you could sing that, though! Did you sing in a choir or something?
With stunning mediocrity. Between the orchestra and the rest of the full choir though, there was a lot of talent. Was really quite something. You would lose self and become part of something beautiful and greater. You lose control of your rhythm, your breathing, your tremendous expenditure of effort. All offered to the whole. While I almost passed out, one person actually did pass out shortly after that bit. Not super duper uncommon from what I gather. I can see why that sort of activity is drawn as a hypothetical form of heaven.
With stunning mediocrity. Between the orchestra and the rest of the full choir though, there was a lot of talent. Was really quite something. You would lose self and become part of something beautiful and greater. You lose control of your rhythm, your breathing, your tremendous expenditure of effort. All offered to the whole. While I almost passed out, one person actually did pass out shortly after that bit. Not super duper uncommon from what I gather. I can see why that sort of activity is drawn as a hypothetical form of heaven.
That's pretty sweet. Like a stereotypical Asian I've played piano since I was a little kid, but thankfully I ended up enjoying it (and music runs in my blood, anyways), so I know what it's like to lose yourself in the music.
She pretty much likes nothing if it contains no lyrics. Loves things like Kate Rusby or the pop celtic stuff, but gotsta have somebody singing or she's bored.
Unless it's a singer or group I really like, I prefer that the musicians just shut up and play. One of my favorite concerts, Yanni: Live at the Acropolis, has exactly two parts where anything is spoken or sung. In one, a couple of opera singers do an aria, and in the other Yanni introduces a song he wrote for his mother, and comments that from space, the lines on a map can't be seen. He's very much into the idea that music belongs to everyone and lines on a map don't matter.
A YouTube search turned up one of my favorite pieces in that concert. Yes, it has a real title, but you could also consider it a classical version of "dueling violins"... Karen Briggs and Shardad Rohani (who was also the conductor) just blew everyone away with this. I have never in my life heard a better violinist than Karen Briggs.
Of course, on the 'no lyrics' preference, I make an exception for musical theatre. I studied it for a couple of years in my music classes in school, and spent 1979 - 2000 working on a lot of local musical theatre productions on the properties and/or costume crews. I could usually attend rehearsals, so by the end of the show I knew the play as well as, or better in some cases, than the cast did (there was one guy in Jesus Christ Superstar who I always had to remind to take his whip on stage for the "39 Lashes" scene; he nearly didn't have it one night... ).
That's funny, I'm usually the opposite. Much of the music I like is instrumental, I think the only genres where I'm usually fine with lyrics is if it's those epic choir stuff, Latin American stuff (like salsa and so on), and maybe some medieval music if it's right.
If it's the Irish Rovers, Makem & Clancy, Enya, Jean Redpath, The King's Singers, or specific filk singers such as Julia Ecklar or Leslie Fish, that's the kind of lyrics I'm into. Otherwise, I might like specific songs in various genres, but not the genre itself as a whole.
That's pretty sweet. Like a stereotypical Asian I've played piano since I was a little kid, but thankfully I ended up enjoying it (and music runs in my blood, anyways), so I know what it's like to lose yourself in the music.
I spent several years studying and practicing for my Western Board of Music exams for the organ. There was a lot of Bach on the syllabus. A lot. And since I'm much more comfortable playing by ear than by reading music at the best of times, I didn't want an exam I'd studied and practiced for over 6 months to be the time when I lost my place because I'd relied on the notes as a crutch. So I memorized them.
It must have driven my family nuts to hear that stuff 2-3 hours a day, every day, until I finally started getting it right. It had to be absolutely perfect, with my fingers and feet trained to know automatically where to go and what to do. And the way it happened when things finally did come together there would be this magical moment with no stumbling, no clumsiness, all the notes would be right, and I would be so into it that I didn't even dare breathe for fear of breaking my concentration.
Thank you for the link Valka. Been a long time since I've heard that one. Yanni is one of the few things I can listen to while reading without it driving me insane. Have a special place in my heart for when violins start laying down and entering fiddle territory(yea, I know it's a matter of tuning but I think you get the jist).
I've noticed most songs by black people are about love and boning. Rap and hip hop might have some gangsta elements in it but it's still mostly about boning.
For most music, songs are song with 1 or two vowels. Usually a short "i" like in the word "inn", a short "a" like in "axe", or a long "u" like in "rule". Country uses long "i" and long "e" like "like" or "speech". It's a smaller, more constrained sound that leads to a twangier voice.
Is there a genre that isn't mostly about boning, on some level? Even folk music is mostly about boning, it just uses a lot of complicated rural metaphors.
It can also be said that some songs about boning are a back handed way to boast about the singer's truck. This song I linked to feels like a love song to the truck more than anything else. But then again the singer describes the girl like he would describe a truck so maybe that's where my confusion comes from.
Well, you do need to put the appropriate amount of weight on trucks for the subculture. One where becoming a skilled wrench-monkey is still a darn respectable thing to be. The truck is work, the truck is play, the truck is connection, the truck is social status, the drive is metaphorical, and in no small part literally, life.
"Amazing Grace" is about the songwriter's ex-girlfriend. "Wade in the Water" is a vulgar euphemism. "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" is about doin' it in the backseat of a car. See what I mean? Just got to use your imagination.
Got it... For "swing low" I was thinking along the lines of something more direct like a "Sweet chariot" that "swings" and "swings low" at that if ya know what im sayin'
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Got it... For "swing low" I was thinking along the lines of something more direct like a "Sweet chariot" that "swings" and "swings low" at that if ya know what im sayin' ![[pimp]](/images/smilies/pimp.gif "Pimp [pimp]")
