Are you listening to music?

Write4U said:
An interesting phenomenon is that instrumental music is being replaced with lyrics and with rap at its most extreme.

It's a desensitization of response to frequency harmonics and the reliance on words to give the "performance" any meaning at all.

From children and adults performing opera
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to current trends of just chaotic noise
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Could you elaborate? How does your statement apply to the two examples of opera?
 
This went up with Voyager on the golden album, along with Bach and Beethoven. After a few passes it grew on me. My cat likes it too! B-)

 
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A young lady sent me this after our first date. I told her I was honored but I have one question: Do you want to date me or do you want to eat me? :confused:

I showed this to a guy at work and he said it gave him nightmares.

 
This is my favorite song by Beirut



This is the song that first turned me on to Beirut. So unusual, I read them as a mix of alternative, Eastern European, and Mariachi!

 
Write4U said:
An interesting phenomenon is that instrumental music is being replaced with lyrics and with rap at its most extreme.

It's a desensitization of response to frequency harmonics and the reliance on words to give the "performance" any meaning at all.

From children and adults performing opera
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Again, I don't understand your point. In that performance, Jackie sang O Mio Babbino Caro, which was written in 1918.
 
Ivan Seeking said:
Again, I don't understand your point. In that performance, Jackie sang O Mio Babbino Caro, which was written in 1918.
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And it was beautiful. It was the popular music in those days.

I am talking about the dumbing down of the instrumental part of "popular music".
Today the most popular of popular music is HipHop/Rap. I hear the rap, but where is the music?

Ah well, my favorite music is Jazz and I am especially enamored with Pat Metheny.
This is my current favorite mini-concerto; "Heat of the day"
Lyle Mays' piano solo is a spellbinding tour de force about a "hot day in the desert".
 
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