Here's a bit more...can't go off with only 1 post!!
Ya...so about MUSIC
I dunno but Im progressing from a more pop-based entertainment to a more classical-based one. First there was pop, then Indian film music, then New Age and now Western Classical. I have a conviction that when one has "realised" a particular genre of music, one experiences a kind of dizzy sensation in the head, and one moves on to more classicalized forms.(It has happened to me all the time). It's weird but true.
I have also tried to analyse the differences between Indian and European Music. Indian Music being microtonal, has a higher melodic and rhythmic quality. It is basically a spiritual experience, but just like its European counterpart, needs a trained ear for appreciation. It is the kind of music that seeks to grow on you, and by my own analysis, enchants the heart more than the brain. Symbolically it is like the silence and peace of the night, without a definite beginning or end, or like the traditional positive qualities of the feminine gender, of tenderness, compassion, love and endurance.
On the contrary, European Music is semitonal, and hence relies more on harmonic briliance, which is usually profound. It is based in the Gothic era, has a huge structure and is a secular exercise. What separates and distinguishes European Music from other traditions is its legendary and epic character. It is a awe-inspiring experience, and thus usually a greater favourite with the brain rather than the heart. Symbolically it represents the more vibrant half, the daytime, a variegated dance through human emotion, with concord and discord in equanimity. It represents the traditionally masculine characteristics, the heroism, the confidence, individualism and patriotism.
So there you are. I think a succint analysis. The next blog will be about literature, so I'm entering intellectual territory...cya!!
2 comments:
interesting post...liked the analysis of Indian and European music through the male and female analogy...i have a theory too that maybe the appreciation of music is hereditary....if talent can pass from one generation to the next why cant musical appreciation?
Certainly....but I think appreciation is not always perfectly hereditary, talent can be...
As an example, both my mom and dad love Indian Classical music. I don't, but I love Western Classical Music, New Age Music, very melodious Bollywood songs...I am not very fond of Hard Rock, Metal or suchlike. So there is some correlation between the type of music me and my parents appreciate but our musical tastes differ.
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