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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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In Reply to: That is cool posted by Penguin on January 21, 2015 at 21:12:03:
I loved tensors. And Maxwell's equations do have a remarkable elegance to them! But I was never really interested in the working out of problems of the kind you mentioned. Tended to snooze through those parts of the lecture. OTOH, while my formal musical training is limited to childhood piano lessons, I find music theory fascinating and could learn it endlessly. Perhaps because it connects to something that I love?
Which I guess brings me to the disconnect I'm sensing here. As intriguing as I find tensors, I experience them as mathematical abstractions, brain teasers of a kind. Music of course is equally mathematical, and can be approached as math. But as a non-musician I experience it intuitively and emotionally. They miracle of music -- that broken symmetries can make us soar and cry!
Sure, if I look at the notes on the page I see thirds and fifths and tonics and subdominants, and time signatures and keys and leading tones. But those are usually the last things on my mind when I listen.
So maybe I'm misreading this, I almost get the sense that you're struggling to listen analytically, rather than letting your intuition do the lifting. In my experience with difficult works or difficult composers with whom I'm not particularly familiar, the best thing to do is just to listen repeatedly until it clicks. I had to do that with Brahms, to whom I had little exposure growing up; his works sounded like noise to me when I first listened to them. And I also had to do it with unusually difficult works by composers with whom I was familiar, like the Missa Solemnis. For me, the learning process had nothing to do with conscious analysis, or a struggle to understand.
Certainly, for someone who mastered E&M (even if he then forgot it (not that it isn't there in cold storage, ready to be resurrected if you ever need it), this isn't a question of adequate brain power! I think you may be applying the wrong part of your brain, or perhaps being too frustrated by the fact that the works won't yield their riches right away, as the works of lesser composers do.
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Follow Ups
- RE: That is cool - josh358 08:29:08 01/22/15 (8)
- Never had issues with complex music - Penguin 20:07:02 01/22/15 (7)
- RE: Never had issues with complex music - josh358 07:56:09 01/23/15 (6)
- Well, as they said in "Vertigo", "Mozart's the boy for you!" - Chris from Lafayette 16:04:23 01/25/15 (1)
- RE: Well, as they said in "Vertigo", "Mozart's the boy for you!" - josh358 19:13:07 01/25/15 (0)
- hmm - Penguin 17:33:19 01/23/15 (3)
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