Meaning or Beauty?

Yeah Robin, out of the closet with that chord already! :horrified:

I see music differently than most I think.

I write music because I like to create things. And music is something I am good at creating.

It doesn't inspire emotions, and I don't try to capture feelings or beauty or anything like that.

I really think all of our connotations of music stem from our history with that music. Take Chopin's dead guy march. Is it really an inherently sad peice? Or is it so because its been paired with death for generations?

If you played this peice for people that weren't familiar with western tone scales would they give the same reaction? I think not.

But I won't argue that music doesn't have meaning to people or that it doesn't produce emotions in people or whatever. I am just stating that it isn't a requisite of music.

Come on with the gay chord allready.

...music is something I am good at creating. It doesn't inspire emotions

...I don't try to capture feelings or beauty...

I really think all of our connotations of music stem from our history with that music. Take Chopin's dead guy march. Is it really an inherently sad peice? Or is it so because its been paired with death for generations?

It is certainly not inherently sad, it's only sad to someone whose life experiences lead them to expect or hear sadness in minor chords and pieces titled "funeral, death march, dirge"...

Again, for me personally, I derive great pleasure and happiness from dark, disturbing pieces. I find them very positive and inspiring. But, that's just me...

But I won't argue that music doesn't have meaning to people or that it doesn't produce emotions in people or whatever. I am just stating that it isn't a requisite of music.

It may not be prerequisite, but it's always there nonetheless - same way people derive meaning from chance happenings, or sunsets...if you're looking for meaning, you will find it.

Man, you like totally ignored the part where I said music was different to me than it is to other people. Or maybe I wasn't clear. Anyway,

I'm talking about what music does for ME. I'm not stating what it does for others. Yeah I guess I wasn't too clear. I was just talking about how music effects me when writing or listening to it.

Emotion and meaning have no place in my musical world. Its just sound.

I agree with you on the rest though.

Man, this is not laughing matter! Everybody's waiting for Robin to reveal this chord! :P

I know the chord! It's a D minor chord with a major 7th and a sharpened 11th, omitting the 9th! >.>

But in all honesty, I think the meaning of the piece is better than the beauty of the piece. I hardly consider Bela Bartok's "Bear Dance" to be beautiful at all, but I still like the piece. Maybe it doesn't have meaning either... it just seems as the title is... a bear dancing... and the music is almost as unbelievable as the title is.