What is music, what is not?

DwnWthVwls · 10-12-2014, 02:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Janszoon

It would. My grandfather grew up in the 1910s and 1920s listening to classical and ragtime and he thought The Beatles were "just noise". One of his big gripes about rock in general was that to him it had no melody.

I'm not educated in music. I never went to music school or anything. I can't break down what's being played into esoteric bits of music theory. I just know very basic things like what the words "melody" and "harmony" mean, which I think is pretty common knowledge. I don't think it takes a musical education to listen to someone playing a guitar and recognize that they are playing notes on it, something which happens in grindcore, math rock, etc.

I find it hard to believe that he didn't recognize a pattern in the music. It sounds like he was just being stubborn because he didn't enjoy the music(melody). Not enjoying the melody and not recognizing there is more than just random sounds being played are the two things I was trying to differentiate between.

As for your second point, I know those words as well but from the grindcore I have listened to I would definitely not be able to make the claims you made to Trollheart. As far as I know everything you play on an instrument is a note, correct? So obviously I would recognize they are playing notes but when the notes are put together it makes very little sense to me. You seem to have a much higher comprehension of it than I do.