Music Definition and 434 Threads

Back when Thriller first came out I loved it. I thought the "Billie Jean" dance was terrific, and I must have watched the zombie video 30 times. In light of his later weirdness, I am careful not to mention this album as having been among my favorites. In fact, I will deny having just wrote...

Hi, Does anyone have any exceptional music to recommend that they believe enhances their ability to concentrate or visualize highly abstract and/or complex math/physics problems? It's fun experimenting with stuff like this so if you have any recommendations let me know. [I do a lot of math &...

I know it's quite embarrassing when I ask this, but how can one distinguish different types of music. I can clearly tell which one is a pop song. It's easy since pop song is just about love. I know Rock, and Heavy Rock (is it also called Heavy Metal?), but I don't know what's the difference. Is...

How large is your computer music library in terms of songs and the space they take up? I have just under 1600 songs and it takes up about 8.1 gigs, but I know people who have much more than that...a girl I went out with for awhile last year had over 5000 songs on her computer.

I often wonder what music will be like in a century or two. In fact I wonder if humans will have anything to do with music, beyond listening. Will we eventually write a program that is the perfect composer? Will all acoustic instruments be abandoned and replaced with electronic ones, or will we...

Ok, I don't know if anyone else here likes this sort of thing. I'm getting into Middle Eastern and Latino pop/flamenco music because both genres have a beat. (I don't know Arabic, Turkish, Farsi, or Spanish...but the singers just seem more passionate about what they are singing) Anyone here...

i fond this site: www.pandora.com you select some artists\songs you like and it tries to identify your taste and play songs you'll like. i made a station, you can add it by clicking on share and insert the address westerndrag@hotmail.com my taste is much broader then what this site made...

http://www.youtube.com/w/Fearless-MV?v=fp2atxNeVDU&search=jet%20li This is a nice video for jet li fans... but its also, for me, says something about American music lately. For most of the music video... if i didn't see the chinese (or whatever) captions at the bottom, i really wouldn't have...

Can computer music "speak" to us? Via the commenter whose handle is Fly, over at the gene expression site www.gnxp.com, I found this moving testimony by Douglas Hofstadter, on the effects of one piece of AI programming. http://www.unc.edu/~mumukshu/gandhi/gandhi/hofstadter.htm He finds...

Come On Dance, Dance - Saturday Night Band

Ok let's start a nice little conversation for amateur or professional producers out there. I'm interesting in Alesis XGuitar - anyone have any experience with it? Particularly I'd like to know the FX editing capability - what exactly can you downlink to it and how do you edit any effects...

could you please paraphrase these sentences for me? i have an en exam tomorrow but i know nothing!:cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: i really appreciate your help!:redface: "the study of music teaches people to appreciate quality- those products of human creativity that represent the highest order of...

OK, find another house that could top this one in terms of christmas decoration creativity. :) http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8290192083117426204 Zz.

Can any Firefox users here the music on this page (It's not an English page, though)? (You just have to open the page, and don't have to click on anything). Uhmm, so far I've tested this in Opera, and Internet Explorer, and both work fine... But somehow it does not seem to work in Firefox. I...

How did and why would we evolve such that we receive enjoyment from music? Is this a more complex form of communication than simple speech, so that somehow musical hominids had an advantage over non-musical ones, or, could our fondness for rhythms be due to a memory of our mother's heartbeat, or...

Any Electronic Music Fans here? If so what's your Bag?

Who are your favorite bands and what are you favorite songs for being festive on Halloween? Personally while I like some of the cheesy music specifically for Halloween I really prefer music that suits the Halloween atmosphere without trying to be Halloween music. I just finished listening...

hey does anyone know any good music sites where i can LISTEN to some good music but not necessarily download? thanx a lot 4 ur help:smile:

what do u think is the most convenient software/program for downloading music of the internet? i am currently using filetopia, kazaa(used to) and winmx until it ended

I'm looking for some mellow stuff. Jazz, Blues, that kind of thing. Any recommendations?

The reason I decided to post my queries out here is simple:I believe that ideas of PF members,by and large,represent the ideas of the world. :smile: I've been learning indian classical music for about 12 years now...have lots of friends who're equally passionate about music.I guess...

Anyone ever tried writing down the number of tones between all the chords in a song and finding out if there's any way to express music numerically/mathematically? Because.. I don't think I restrain myself any longer. It would sure make song writing a lot easier if I could do it mathematically

Hello. The Q is, as before stated, can music effect your mood?(affect or effect?) Anyway, my mom and I have had arguments about this more than a few times. She says that me listening to metal makes me agry. Is there any scientific proof that this happens? Examples... Metal= angry country=...

i don't understand modern music one bit. I've got a dvd of glenn gould playing stuff by the members of the so-called "vienna school" which is all abstract & weird, & not really musical at all. some people think that stuff is great though, but i can't understand why. I've heard other 20th-century...

when you listen to music, do you care about the politics expressed in the music? example: if you are a liberal, can you listen to Lynard Skynard? if you are a republican, can you listen to Green Day? Fibonacci

I don't know whether it is wise to repeat a string, but having put these together, decided to go on and put it out, so here goes: Composers 1. Each of these two composers usually kept a gun handy and nearby. Who were they, and what was the reason in each case? 2. This composer/performer...

Do you see coloured images if you listen to music? Does a certain music chord taste salty for you? Are numbers coloured for you? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synesthesia Then you might be a synaesthete. I'd like to ask if anyone here has such a synaestetic ability.

Beginning with me: Evanescence Smile Empty Soul Nirvana REM Goo Goo Dolls Enigma Pin Drop Violence(Indian Metal Band)

1)In which Mozart-opera does the main caracter ask : "you, who know what love is"...one of the most famous Mozart aria's edit : answered correctly 2) Which good friend from Goethe once answered "this is how my destiny knocks at my door" when Goethe asked him how he came up with a very...

Can music help people's mind a lot ? In what way can it do that ? Another question I am wondering now is whether it true or not that people like a certain genre of music just because of their mood at the time ? If so, do you know why they change their like to another genre ? Thanks

I enjoy listening to rap mostly, especially when driving, and i have an appreciation for other types of music. But there is something about trance that seems to hold some mathematical pattern. Obviously it does because it can be measured, but certain songs seem to interact with the brain. It is...

Music - why is it pleasurable? I have seen recently how universal music is to humanity. All cultures throughout the world have mother's singing lullaby's to their babies. I think anyone who listens to music, sings or plays an instrument may have wondered, why does music often affect us...

More than 20 UK internet users pay a total of £50,000 out of court for illegally sharing songs on the web. http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/click/rss/0.91/public/-/1/hi/entertainment/music/4318765.stm"

What is a good, free of course, program that will convert music. I want one that will convert into mp3 format, or any format that has good quality and is small in size, and will play in xmms. (xmms has been down all day so I have no clue what formats are supported). I use linux btw. Thanks.

Most people may know to go to All Music Guide if one is looking for a particular picece of music, group, album, or is just interested in the history. In the US, one can purchase music on-line at Barnes and Noble, Amazon and others. Another good place for music from Europ, which is not...

I subscribe to Dish, and part of what they offer is Sirius digital music channels. About 100 channels, no commercials (except for Sirius' own), and each channel dedicated to a different type of music. Every variety of music one can imagine can be found (though if it were my company, I'd add a...

For those who really care about music, and see its extreme strength, please do whatever you can to get an album or two by Enio Moricone (or Ennio Morricone). It is absolutely incredible. I am lost for words.

a flute is cylindrical and when you hit the 2nd register (higher notes) the fingering is pretty much the same as on the base register. in other words, the jump is a regular octave. a clarinet is conical and the jump to the 2nd register is a 12 note jump from what i understand. can anyone...

What songs do you listen to when you're sad? The ones I prefer are: The Rain Song, by Led Zeppelin Roads, by Portishead Dexter's Tune, by Randy Newman (from the "Awakenings" soundtrack) Symphony #2, Third Movement, by Rachmaninoff Good Morning Heartache, by Billie Holiday I'm Through...

Lately I've noticed a certain segregation of music from NOFX's 'Son of an *******' and 'War on Errorism' To Clint Blacks 'Iraq and I roll' and Britney spears supporting George Bush. Basicly 'Heavy' stuff goes the Anti-Flag (a band) direction of no-war, anti-bush while 'Lighter' country and...

Hey Im doing a assignment on physics in music i have looked at the net and wasnt able to find any relevant information, can any1 help

Why do we enjoy the music that we listen to? What is it about this music that entails our attention and interest? Do we listen to rock, rap, or trance music because it outputs our feeling? Is this good ? (Please do not start discussing the definition of good; assume it is the overall...

I just downloaded a few songs by Gang Starr and bought a CD from A Tribe Called Quest. Those two groups two some of the best rap I've heard in a long time. With crap like Ludacris blaring on the radio, and hip hop being introduced to the general public by people like Eminem, Nelly, Ja...

Classicalist thinking has invaded me, I agree, however... As far as I understand sound, it is the exchange of kinetic information between sucessive particles in space. When these air pressures collide, certain pressures are amplified while others are nullified. The rest are modified between...

Anybody have any favorites? I like to listen to some classical or classic rock. Vivaldi - Four Seasons, Berlioz - Symphonie Fantastique, Beethoven - 5th, 7th, 8th, 9th, Bach - Well Tempered Clavier Led, Who, Kansas, CCR, Bob Seger, Eagles

I like this one yahoo music

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3614180.stm Loud music lung collapse warning Loud music can do more than damage your hearing - it can also cause your lungs to collapse. Experts writing in the Thorax detail four cases where loud music fans experienced the condition, known as a...

Well, what type of music does everyone listen to? As for me, I'm into Power Metal mainly. Some of my favorite bands are... - Blind Guardian - Edguy - Ayreon - Kamelot - Angra - Symphony-X - Children of Bodom - Sonata Arctica

I'll just leave this open for anyone to discuss about note frequencies, harmonies, chords etc Y do notes complement each other in chords, do the frequencies complement each other and how can this b put into a general equation?

I was going through some of my old cds from the early to mid 90's that I haven't listen to in years and I'm just blown away by the quality of music. I can't get enough Oasis, STP and Nirvana, especially Oasis. Modern music pals in comparison to what it used to be until the whole pop/rap craze. I...