Re: [Harp-L] music and perception (was Superstars in pop/rock music)

[IcemanLE@xxxxxxx]

In a message dated 5/29/2007 2:00:10 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
drfertig@xxxxxxxxx writes:

I  appreciate Chris Michalek's frank and unreserved posting about music, and 
I  appreciate JR's articulate response to what some less-sophisticated sorts  
might consider an arrogant, self-serving and self-congratulatory analyses by  
Chris. 

Try as I might, I could not formulate a reply nearly as good as  JR's, 
because the complexity and arcane rules posited by the underlying post  bewildered 
my un-enlightened self, so I could not appreciate the argument and  thus could 
not comprehend how right it was, nor how wrong I am not to  appreciate music 
that sometimes sounds to my anarchic and undiscerning ears  like the bleatings 
of dying sheep.

Vive la difference.  Vive la  revolution. 


Many times music has confounded me - then, after letting time go by and  
re-listening, it makes sense - and it's not always because I have studied harder  
and learned more about music. Sometimes it is a maturity change. Sometimes it 
is  what is called "Mystery of the Mind" - a great way to describe when there 
is no  discernable reason, but this is what happens to human beings being 
human.
 
The only constant is change. What you don't like today you may love  
tomorrow, because you constantly are changing. This is one reason I love  reinventing 
my teaching concepts every 9 months or so. As I evolve, so should my  
perceptions/understanding/communication. Since I didn't pop out of the womb  fully 
developed, I don't suppose I'll be done until I die, and even then it was  a life 
work in progress. 
 
If there is music you don't like now, it isn't always a matter of  
understanding keeping you distant. If you have an open mind, re-listen to the  music you 
don't like every "X" years. Without judgement or analysis, you may  surprise 
yourself.
 
The Iceman
 



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