Musings on Music, #1

[pat]

brian1789 and I have different tastes in music, and I was trying to figure out some of why that would be so. Part of it is that there is no accounting for taste, but it is more than that.

What finally struck me are the different elements in our music choices. Generally speaking, mine tend to have strong melodies and lyrics, his strong rhythmic elements. He has many more instrumental pieces than I do.

I'm a singer. I am drawn to music that I can sing. I will often purchase cover versions of songs that are in my range rather than originals. (calebbullen despairs of me.) I make no claim to be a good singer (and lately, when I sing I get a sore throat), but I do sing. I sing around the house, I sing in the car, I sing everywhere where I can do so without people looking at me funny. I think of music in terms of melody and voice.

Brian is a dancer. Sometimes he will hear a piece of popular music and comment "Hey, that's a tango!" I will sometime ask him -- "what sort of dance is that music?" He thinks about music in terms of rhythm and movement.

I'm not sure what this says about us, but I think it is interesting.

Comments

[griffen.livejournal.com]

Interesting. I need music with a strong rhythm I can rock to (yes, autistic-rocking), a strong melodic line that I can harmonize to, and preferably a steady beat that remains the same throughout the piece. Lyrics? Eh. I always have to look at a lyric sheet - I can never hear what the singer's saying.

So: Alanis Morissette, YES. October Project, YES.

Tori Amos? Eh. I can take or leave her stuff.