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My music homework.
Oct. 24th, 2004 08:21 pmUgh.
"...pick a piece of music that you know reasonably well from your own listening. There are no restrictions here except that it should be music that is meaningful or powerful to you. ... Step back and do your best to understand the music's emotion or meaning in terms of either the conceptual blending described by Zbikowski or the emotional "scripts" or processes described by Becker or Feld. What kinds of structural analogies give the music significance? In what sociocultural contexts is the music powerful or meaningful? Write a page on this subject."
There are only about three pieces of music I could reasonably do this for. I imagine several of you know me well enough to name at least two of them. The problem is, music doesn't become meaningful and powerful to me until it's associated with something very personal and private; often, that association is only tangentially related to the music. Almost universally, those things it becomes associated with are the last things I want to reveal to a professor I hardly know and don't particularly like.
This is about all I need to do left tonight, but I need to sit on it. I'm going to take my laptop to campus and play ToME in the lounge until more comes to me. Actually, I very well might scribble notes to myself in the comments. You can laugh at them if you want.
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"...pick a piece of music that you know reasonably well from your own listening. There are no restrictions here except that it should be music that is meaningful or powerful to you. ... Step back and do your best to understand the music's emotion or meaning in terms of either the conceptual blending described by Zbikowski or the emotional "scripts" or processes described by Becker or Feld. What kinds of structural analogies give the music significance? In what sociocultural contexts is the music powerful or meaningful? Write a page on this subject."
There are only about three pieces of music I could reasonably do this for. I imagine several of you know me well enough to name at least two of them. The problem is, music doesn't become meaningful and powerful to me until it's associated with something very personal and private; often, that association is only tangentially related to the music. Almost universally, those things it becomes associated with are the last things I want to reveal to a professor I hardly know and don't particularly like.
This is about all I need to do left tonight, but I need to sit on it. I'm going to take my laptop to campus and play ToME in the lounge until more comes to me. Actually, I very well might scribble notes to myself in the comments. You can laugh at them if you want.
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