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Post by HueHuey on Sept 11, 2012 17:00:57 GMT
The question is: Apart from the lyrics, what makes some songs/melodies better than others?
And how can our brain recognize it?
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Post by Qwerty on Sept 11, 2012 22:33:19 GMT
At this point what defines a song is someone calling it a song. However, as to what makes some better than others, I have no idea. Even modern science has yet to fully comprehend why we enjoy music.
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Post by Fringe Pioneer on Sept 12, 2012 12:20:04 GMT
If I had to make any wild guesses in spite of having no knowledge about songs, the following would be those guesses.
What makes sounds music and not noise is detectable pattern, comfortable amplitude, and acceptable frequencies. I suspect these are the things that make the Imperial March such awe-inspiring sounds for the Galactic Empire music while making the same Imperial March devastating noise to Felarians (as can be read in the fan fiction Vader's Folly). What makes music song and not just music is the addition of lyrics in a language that is used and understood by at least one lingual group (e.g. Esperanto, Spanish, Serbian, etc.), or so I hazard my guess. Maybe even a foreigner might be willing to consider music to be lyriced song even if none of the lyrics sounded the least bit like understandable speech, but perhaps not if the lyrics did not sound like speech at all...
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Post by Hachi1 on Sept 19, 2012 9:42:48 GMT
When people are exposed to a certain type of music for a long enough time, whatever it is, they can start to like it. My sister used to hate Adele but after listening to it for a number of times she ended up liking it haha. Music taste is also influence by what is popular at the time, probably because you hear it more often than other music.
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Post by HueHuey on Sept 19, 2012 11:05:44 GMT
Music taste is also influence by what is popular at the time, probably because you here it more often than other music. Which is why everyone likes justin bieber....  |
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Post by Qwerty on Sept 19, 2012 21:46:41 GMT
Actually no. A small minority of people like Justin Bieber, a greater number of people hate his music, and most people just don't care.
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Post by Fringe Pioneer on Sept 20, 2012 3:28:15 GMT
I think his use of the smiley was equivalent to my use of this link, i.e. he was being sarcastic... |
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