scunny
Well-known member
Just thought I'd throw this up here as a change of pace...
I remember reading a book a while back in which a doctor suggested all musicians are emotionally flawed - he claimed he could not listen to Moonlight Sonata without being moved to tears every time, yet a pianist would have to practice and hear the music a hundred times to learn to play it.
How many of you beleive it is true that to learn to play & understand music is to become de-sensitised to its emotive power?
(kind of like how knowing a magicians' secrets changes your enjoyment of a magic show into a critique on technical skills rather than wonderment at a spectacle)
It is an interesting paradox if it is so, as the people with the power to create the music will never hear it in the same way as the majority of it's audience?!?!?
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Washington Medical Marijuana Dispensaries
I remember reading a book a while back in which a doctor suggested all musicians are emotionally flawed - he claimed he could not listen to Moonlight Sonata without being moved to tears every time, yet a pianist would have to practice and hear the music a hundred times to learn to play it.
How many of you beleive it is true that to learn to play & understand music is to become de-sensitised to its emotive power?
(kind of like how knowing a magicians' secrets changes your enjoyment of a magic show into a critique on technical skills rather than wonderment at a spectacle)
It is an interesting paradox if it is so, as the people with the power to create the music will never hear it in the same way as the majority of it's audience?!?!?
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Washington Medical Marijuana Dispensaries