Comments | flupiajo: I Hear Melodic Similarities.

flupiajo

I Hear Melodic Similarities.

Jan 10, 2007 21:30

I had an amazing revelation the other day: these songs, two of my favorites, have a similar melodic fragment in them. Maybe that's why I like them both so much. Maybe there are universal fragments that affect everyone in the exact same mysterious way. Pandora (www.pandora.com - link overload, I know. Forgive me. Bear with me. Love me.) explores ( Read more... )

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somerled January 11 2007, 03:35:39 UTC

I like the Fingal's Cave piece, partly because it has a great bassoon part and I play bassoon.

summer led me flupiajo January 11 2007, 03:54:33 UTC

i play flute. do you still play? maybe most importantly, did you hear that part? did they match up? maybe you didn't even listen! god forbid.

Re: summer led me flupiajo January 11 2007, 04:09:00 UTC

i mean, of course you still play, but actively outside of private lessons or for personal enjoyment?

Re: summer led me somerled January 11 2007, 04:19:47 UTC

It's not just this cover, but the original Paranoid Android also has that part. Yes, similar! I wonder if he put it in consciously, or on a subconscious level remembered it.

I still so play, actively, in orchestral settings sometimes, sometimes in more pop music type stuff, on friends' recording projects and such.

Where do you play flute?

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General Note: flupiajo January 11 2007, 11:59:18 UTC

The title of this was a spoof on "I see dead people." A bad spoof.

woodburner January 11 2007, 13:17:05 UTC

DUDE I DO THIS AND WONDER THE SAME THINGS ALL THE TIME. I frequently hear melodies in the songs that really move me that just sound so damn familiar somehow, and sometimes I'll track them down to whatever they reminded me of, and sometimes I'll just have to go on wondering if it was something I heard in an alternate life or something. I've been dying of curiosity for the longest time - what triggers us to like or dislike a song? What about these patterns and sound qualities so appeal to us (or repel us)? MYSTERY.

The last two minutes of that Fingal's Cave piece make me tingle.

de ja vu flupiajo January 12 2007, 01:04:00 UTC

I actually wrote a final essay on all that once for this Music from 1850 to the Present course I took last year, & I did it on how music affects us emotionally, using the Citizen Kane score as an example. I ended up turning it in a few days late because some of the stuff I found out was so interesting - there's an LJ entry quoting this brief paragraph that summed it up I found in a book at the time a while back in here somewhere - apparently if your dog dies, or something, then the same neurons that get sad about sad music are activated, so when you get sad about music, it's because, unbeknownst to you, all the sad experiences you've ever had are being tapped into via the neurons. Or something. It was called 'spread of activation,' I think. I can't quite remember. & it's also a cultural thing - Westerners are programmed from the first time they hear any type of music onward to react positively to major, negatively to minor, anticipatorily to unresolved cadences, etc. Someone who grew up in India wouldn't necessarily react to the same ( ... )

Re: de ja vu woodburner January 12 2007, 13:02:13 UTC

Actually that sounds really interesting - I'd like to see it but I have AIM-phobia. (Related to phone phobia, don't ask, I have everything phobia.) Would email be too much trouble?

Re: end of Fingal's Cave - Mad violins man, they really just do it for me. You know, when it sounds like the violinist(s) are just this close to totally snapping and going on a stabby rampage with the bow. I don't know why.