A little more

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!!

Back!!!

Ya so Im back.....late again, I know....
Anyway...MBA preps have really started so why not indulge in a bit of studying.....as we guys don't do it too often....
Iv developed a habit of letting people know class schedules...lol..quite contrary to what was the situation even a year back..I was the dumbest, most non-informed guy around. My parents were quite disturbed about that.
But now all has changed...for the better I think. Im not the recluse I once was, and my introvert side is dormant for the moment. I'm also (for the first time in years) being generally liked than otherwise, coz I always was considered weird and forbidding. And I'm good at something finally--at VA, or Verbal Ability, and looked up to. But then, English was always my strength and I was known for that in school ( so long ago!!).
And Im on a spree--an artistic spree. Im really into Western Classical these days (listening, not playing, that's TOO difficult)...AND I'm on a reading spree. I have rediscovered that reading habit, and read 9 novels in the last 2 months, more than what I read in 2 years prior!!
Dunno what is the word limit here...so I'll end my post for now...cya guys, and I'll return soon!!