What is music?

Geekoid · 06-15-2012, 10:56 AM

^^^

I agree.

**Frownland** · 06-15-2012, 01:43 PM

What about other animals responding to music? My dogs always seem to be in a better mood whenever I play my guitar for them. Also, there has been history of elephants responding and even playing music. Check out these two videos.

Geekoid · 06-15-2012, 02:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Frownland

What about other animals responding to music? My dogs always seem to be in a better mood whenever I play my guitar for them. Also, there has been history of elephants responding and even playing music. Check out these two videos.

Cool!
I wonder about that myself. There was a study that I read once about how dogs seem to be indifferent to music, but I have a hard time believing that. I've seen some dogs that were actually afraid of music playing from the radio or an instrument, and others that have found music comforting (especially when their owner is playing it).

Piotr_13 · 06-18-2012, 07:53 PM

While we're in the womb, we hear the beating of the heart. Music is rhythmic like this. Therefore humans dig it when we come all into this world and sh*t.

galt54 · 04-19-2024, 07:17 AM

If a piece of putative music does not have a melody, then it is mere noise, not genuine music.

Melody is the sine qua non of music worthy of the name.

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Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,548	What about other animals responding to music? My dogs always seem to be in a better mood whenever I play my guitar for them. Also, there has been history of elephants responding and even playing music. Check out these two videos. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

06-15-2012, 10:56 AM	#21 (permalink)
Geekoid Music Addict Join Date: Jun 2012 Location: Ontario, Canada Posts: 171	^^^ I agree.

06-18-2012, 07:53 PM	#24 (permalink)
Piotr_13 Groupie Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: In a van down by the river Posts: 34	While we're in the womb, we hear the beating of the heart. Music is rhythmic like this. Therefore humans dig it when we come all into this world and sh*t.

04-19-2024, 07:17 AM	#25 (permalink)
galt54 Music Addict Join Date: Dec 2013 Location: A suburb of Stockholm, Sweden. Posts: 135	If a piece of putative music does not have a melody, then it is mere noise, not genuine music. Melody is the sine qua non of music worthy of the name.