Category: "Music"
Why A Madeleine!
Having written A Different Sort Of Madeleine I realised that my readers (always assuming I have any....) will have been completely thrown by the fact that it was written on the assumption that I had earlier posted a piece about madeleines. It turns out that I must have dreamt it!!
A New Music Memory
I have written before (in Music Memories) about the different ways in which various pieces of music trigger very specific recall about some past event. Just the other day I had an experience which both reinforced my previous ideas and caused me to think about a new aspect of this.
Categories: Philosophical, Music, Cognition, ----------
A Matter Of Taste
A recurrent theme on the blog is the matter of "taste" in regard to the arts - especially in regard to music. It is well understood that "what you like" is determined by all sorts of factors and quite naturally varies from person to person - that song that "brings tears to your eyes" may well "bring tears" to someone else's eyes for very different reasons!
Categories: Philosophical, Music, Cognition, Worldview, ----------
The Tingle Factor Redux
Radio 3 is - on its breakfast show - focusing on building a playlist based on the theme "the Tingle Factor". Some time ago I wrote a post on that subject and it was always likely that I would return to it. Sitting here listening to the opening of Sibelius' Fifth Symphony was all I needed to trigger that return!
Dora Who?
In a post that is (for a change) targetted precisely at the overall theme of this blog I want to share with you yet another insight into my own ignorance....
The Tingle Factor
I was reminded last night of the power of music to affect you in a physical way - I don't pretend to understand how this works, but it is a very real experience as far as I am concerned. Music affects me in many different ways, depending on the nature of the music - soothing to calm me, martial to inspire, the possibilities are endless, but what I want to concentrate on here is the tingle factor when the power of the music sends a shiver through your body.
Categories: Systems Thinking, Music, Cognition, ----------
Music Memories
As a musician, it is not surprising that many pieces of music are associated with particular events/memories. However, it never ceases to amaze me of the wealth of different ways in which the musical memories come about – sometimes it has been through a concert taken part in, sometimes just listening, sometimes music in the background when something has happened and a host of other ways.
