When it comes to music I don’t think it is useful to analyze it. Why? Because Music I s meant to be enjoyed not to be dissected by our thoughts. It is supposed to bring happiness and relax us. If you analyze music you do not enjoy it the same way as if you were just listening to it. You need to sit back and take the music in the same way you take air in, you have to let the music penetrate your soul and you need to just live in the beat. That is the only real way to enjoy music. If you analyze music your focusing too much on the artist and what they were trying to say through there song, but you can do all of that with out analyzing the song. If you are just listening to it and take it all in you can feel what the artist of the song is trying to say. You can feel all the emotions of the song. If the artist is trying to make you feel sad then that’s what you will feel believe if you analyze music you detract from the experience your pretty much just losing out of the whole experience of that song.
I do not believe that analyzing music can enhance the experience at all. Analyzing music and enjoying music do not mix together. It is either on or the other, you can not have both. If you spend all your time analyzing music you are never going to experience the joys of music, or the feelings you get when you hear a sad song. It is an amazing feeling to be able to share the same emotions that artist did when he writes a song. If you analyze music then you are trying to see what he was thinking when the artist wrote the song and that can take a very long time. And you will not get the same experience.
There is not much that you have to really enjoy music. All you have to do is find a song with a catchy beat and sit back relax and enjoy the greatness of music. Music is also meant to inspire. And the only way that you can feel the inspiration is through the emotions of the music that you are “listening” to, not analyzing. How can you be inspired when you are analyzing every song that you listen too? To be truly inspired by music I think that you have to let the music touch your heart. Music can also motivate you on other things. For example, if you are lonely you can put on a song to make you feel like you are not alone. Or if play sports you will play a song to get you pumped up and in the mood of playing. Quindlen says “rock-and-roll still flows through my veins, not my brain.” That’s a perfect example of how music is supposed to be enjoyed and not analyzed.
well put California Dreamin, this is the first blog that I can truely agree with. When you listen to music It's the melody that grabbes you first. Every instrument that you hear, the piano, the drums, the voilens, it all comes first. If the melody does not get you attention who cares what the word are telling you, your really wasting the experiance trying to break it apart. Think about it how many of us really know all the words to the songs that we listen to? It's the beat that takes our hearts first then we catch on to the words, weather it's a song that makes us sad, happy, want to get up and dance it's still the beat. Now if you disect every type of music you listen to it will runen the moment if you try to figure out what the artist wants you to know you may never get to enjoy it. perfect example the song Dear Sady Im not sure who it's by, but the artist is talking about a dog, his best friend was his dog. If i would have spent all this time trying to figure out what he wanted to say or what he was takling about i would have never gotten the chance to enjoy his music. So no dont analyze you music, it is ment to be enjoyed, to sooth, relax, and comfort you. Takemit for what it is and enjoy it.
ReplyDeleteI do agree with you to some degree. Over analysis of music is unnecessary for example, if you disect a frog what is left when you are done are just pieces of something that used to be functioning and living, the same is for a song. To pick a part a song to its bare essentials could make it lose some of its magic and its spontaneous beauty. On that note I agree but there is a limit. It is important to analysis music breifly to get all that the song has to offer from it. To be able to break down a song breifly even by just hearing a new tone or different instrument each time you hear it can add to the experience and make it so that the song is fully appreciated.
ReplyDeleteI’m glad you mentioned emotion in your blog response. Emotion is a huge part of listening to music. I think an artist’s point to their music is to strike a chord within each of their fans. You make a great point when you say music doesn’t have to be dissected. I agree it truly doesn’t. I’m going to slightly contradict myself by saying when we listen to music all the energy and attention we put into enjoying the music it brought about by dissecting the song as we listen. That being said, I think it’s a matter of what degree you are dissecting. To break a song down word for word, stop and pause, and even to pull out the dictionary, is ridiculous. To listen to a song and imagine the meaning or make the meaning your own is a much more satisfying experience. I think that’s what it’s all about, the experience. Music is meant to reach you in ways no other art can and by enjoying the experience, to me that is key.
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