Music / emotion link

[Tom22]

I found an insanely detailed forum conversation on some of the effects of music on the mind:

More than an evenings reading if you also go wikipedia terms you don't understand as you go ...

http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/commen...r_hearing/

I'll read that one and spare y'all some thoughts here.

[Tom22]

Here is the Leonard Berstein series of lectures. ..

listening to this first.. I guess I was in the mood for some sort of exploration.

I've probably heard/learned much of this sometime along the way but... I hearing it again in another wording is satisfying my hunger.

[Tom22]

Here's a Jackpot of academic articles -- i'm not sure why i hadn't found these in the past when i googled.

I think google is beginning to know my computer and the type of think i might find interesting... That and I probably used better search words...

http://www.brainmusic.org/EducationalAct...dings.html

I'm not going to make it through a full reading of all those articles that's for sure.

[cherelann]

After trying to read and understand the articles and listening to Mr. Bernstein's lecture I realize how little I know about music. I was never much good at mathematics either. It is fascinating to realize there are so many layers to music that are universal and at the same time different culturally. If we want world peace maybe we should start with music... Haley has certainly been doing her part.

[My Alter Ego]

After trying to read and understand the articles and listening to Mr. Bernstein's lecture I realize how little I know about music. I was never much good at mathematics either. It is fascinating to realize there are so many layers to music that are universal and at the same time different culturally. If we want world peace maybe we should start with music... Haley has certainly been doing her part.

Cherelann, I haven't had the opportunity to read or listen, and probably won't until the weekend, but I've always enjoyed the Bernstein's lectures that I've heard before (perhaps I've already heard this one, but a refresher surely can't hurt!), so I look forward to this.

However, while I truly appreciate your respectfulness toward him, somewhere between Danny Kaye's (checking the soles of his shoes) "does Lenny chew gum?" and "Mr. Bernstein" or "maestro," probably lies the real man, a human being, and, I think, a warm individual, at that. He's brilliant -- no doubt about that, but like the rest of us, I'm reasonably certain he put his socks on one at a time. (My point being that sometimes "respect" is a mask for intimidation -- not that I think that's the case for you -- but I do know that it happens.)

As for the mathematics, again, I haven't listened to the lecture (assuming that's where the reference rises), but in the medieval universities, the seven liberal arts of the "curriculum" were grouped into the "trivium" and the "quadrivium": the former consisting of the "arts" of grammar, rhetoric, and logic, and the latter, the "sciences" of geometry, arithmetic, astronomy, and music -- specifically music theory. All of the "sciences" were either obviously a form of math, or dealt with (i.e. music theory) or required math abilities (astronomy).

[Tom22]

After trying to read and understand the articles and listening to Mr. Bernstein's lecture I realize how little I know about music. I was never much good at mathematics either. It is fascinating to realize there are so many layers to music that are universal and at the same time different culturally. If we want world peace maybe we should start with music... Haley has certainly been doing her part.

A lot of these things are in one ear and out the other for me. Some how i keep putting them in my ear and they keep going out. The technical description of pitch by the physicists on that forum was definitely like that but Berstein's first lecture stuck with me.

I can't listen to them back to back and have them be meaningful. I've only listened to the first one and took a day to digest it.

I'll listen to 2/6 tomorrow or the next day.

I'm happy enough reading forums and only getting a few things that either are verifyably true or are understandable but. they often lay a sort of foundation that helps me figure out the right questions to be asking. Knowing what I should consider if I'm curious about something is a step in itself. I wouldn't have wandered onto the Berstein lectures without 5 or 6 posts there mentioning him (and I didn't get through all the replies to all the posts there either , thats for sure).

[30CamdenSquare]

Here is the Leonard Berstein series of lectures. ..

listening to this first.. I guess I was in the mood for some sort of exploration.

I've probably heard/learned much of this sometime along the way but... I hearing it again in another wording is satisfying my hunger.

Watched this last night. I especially enjoyed the whole part he was at the piano. I have a decent understanding of music theory, not like classical musician level or anything, but enough that I didn't have trouble following him, and there was a lot I learned or have a better understanding of after watching this.

So thank you for posting this John

[Tom22]

MAE RE Berstein the person and his tone of voice etc.

He's from Harvard .. you need to expect the sort of Haughty aristocratic tone from those guys.. they do frequently have something to say though and I've learned to ignore their pomposity as a personal failure of theirs.. like my spelling perhaps. Feel sorry them for their lack of social grace and thinking of them with a patronizing pity in return helps me even the tables of their overly grand assertions.

It was recorded 40 years ago at a time when even Walter Cronkite spoke in a much more formal way, albeit not with the pomposity of a typical Harvard/Bostonian blue blood of the time.