Monday, November 28, 2005
Posting on music
I think I'd like to continue putting my micro reviews and thoughts of music.
I am the first to admit that I don't have much education in music: a few years of piano lessons constituted the background of my music theory, and includes the backbone of reading music and understanding basic use of time signatures which served me well enough to play French horn in high school and to sing hymns in church. I never had a music theory class, though I think it would help for as much as I like music.
I also don't have an encyclopedic knowledge of any particular type of music, as my process of music discovery has been intuitional and fungal, spreading from one adjacent surface to another, perhaps without any overarching guiding purpose except to continue the hunt for more and more wonderful music.
Every month I spend a lot of time on "the hunt," and if this serves as nothing better than a chart of my progress, it will fulfill enough of a purpose. Telling you what I've found is as much a catalogue of the evolution of my personal taste, a map of my discoveries, than it is anything else. I am always asking the people with whom I talk about music if they have heard of Such and Such or their latest So and So. So excuse the utter lack of refinement as I articulate my findings--at best, perhaps you'll find something that strikes your own fancy, or share with me a suggestion of your own. That's what this is all about anyway, right?
I am the first to admit that I don't have much education in music: a few years of piano lessons constituted the background of my music theory, and includes the backbone of reading music and understanding basic use of time signatures which served me well enough to play French horn in high school and to sing hymns in church. I never had a music theory class, though I think it would help for as much as I like music.
I also don't have an encyclopedic knowledge of any particular type of music, as my process of music discovery has been intuitional and fungal, spreading from one adjacent surface to another, perhaps without any overarching guiding purpose except to continue the hunt for more and more wonderful music.
Every month I spend a lot of time on "the hunt," and if this serves as nothing better than a chart of my progress, it will fulfill enough of a purpose. Telling you what I've found is as much a catalogue of the evolution of my personal taste, a map of my discoveries, than it is anything else. I am always asking the people with whom I talk about music if they have heard of Such and Such or their latest So and So. So excuse the utter lack of refinement as I articulate my findings--at best, perhaps you'll find something that strikes your own fancy, or share with me a suggestion of your own. That's what this is all about anyway, right?
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PS I hope you didn't turn on the moderator because of Kali...she wants to be in your virtual community, too!
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