I SO enjoy in-depth discussions with my advanced music students. Recently (and this discussions comes up a lot) a discussion came up with some of my advanced students about WHY certain musical note combinations (intervals and chords) and chord progressions sound good and why others sound bad, and WHY we are naturally drawn toward certain chord progressions, and are pushed away or are unsettled by others, and also the inevitable questions arise (that always do when students are thinking on a higher level); will our musical listening ears ever EVOLVE TO ACCEPT AS CONSONANT (pleasant) what has traditionally been DISSONANT, and the quick answer to that is, generally speaking, NO. While we certainly evolve musically over time, generally speaking, while tone, amplification, effects and VOLUME tastes may change and evolve over time, still, the GENERAL UNDERLYING PHYSICS OF WHAT SOUNDS GOOD and WORKS MUSICALLY, and the same general chord progressions STILL TEND TO ENDURE, whether we are talking about a Beethoven Symphony or Death Metal - for example the chordal cadence of progresson of V-I (5-1) will always be one of the strongest musical movements, regardless of era or genre. That said, the bottom line is that our ears need the PHYSICS of TONAL PATTERNS to be within certain frequency multiples and divisors, and that boils down to the way our brains and ears have evolved over thousands of years, so it is highly unlikely that the general underpinnings of the music theory and physics of what sounds good will ever change, or at least not any time soon. Being the documentary junky that I am, this Amazon Prime documentary series called, The Code, one of my favorites - a documentary about physics and mathematics and their immutable properties relative to nature, has a WONDERFUL section about JUST THIS SUBJECT - the PHYSICS OF MUSIC, and so, for my students who have asked me about this over the last 32 years of studying with me, here is an excerpt from this AWESOME documentary that helps explain what I have been talking about... from BBCs, The Code - Numbers... ENJOY! :D youtu.be/fBGpX9hyBDs
Posted on: Sun, 30 Mar 2014 16:57:38 +0000
Trending Topics
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015