Stuartk, In my personal experience, listening, getting, and yes, tolerating, many times lead to liking.
Let's talk music, no genre boundaries
This is an offshoot of the jazz thread. I and others found that we could not talk about jazz without discussing other musical genres, as well as the philosophy of music. So, this is a thread in which people can suggest good music of all genres, and spout off your feelings about music itself.
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I love it when I get the "concept" through the music and it adds a whole ’nother layer of enjoyment (e.g., Jethro Tull, Passion Play where it runs from the beginning to the end). Maybe if opera was in English... I especially love it when I understand the joke and nobody else seems to get it, some even when you explain it to them. Go to 25:30 and answer the question. Even AI doesn’t get the joke and quotes the disk wrong! |
Great point, @acman3 ! |
I dont know if i takes the times i will learn how to appreciate every single individual artists. I dont think so. For each singular artist i listen my gut and my feeling guide me...i rarely change my mind...But there exist a slow changin evolution in my musical journey...
For a style,genre,or for a cultural musical movement or way of being, it is another complete story... Here my taste had been educated and trained with much humility and listening session whose goal was : what this means ? Once a culture is slowly integrated with many years, my opinion about any of his artists is felt immediately almost without too much error...
Example ? It takes me a slow habituation in the madrigals style of Italian music to understand the difference between Gesualdo and Monteverdi and appreciate the two on equal footing....
I discovered Jazz only i stumble onto artists that were geniuses i could understand on the pot but it has taken much times to appreciate all jazz musicians for who they are... Humility for sure ...
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What you said about appreciating music is how I feel. I did try Haydn's "Creation" Oaratorio. I just don't like Oratorios. I don't like the way the music becomes background for the singers to give Christian doctrine. I am listening to Bach's Mass in B Minor and it is all music all the time. I know the singers, who are singing in German so I can't understand, are singing about Jesus, but because the music goes forth unimpeded, they are just part of the music to me. |
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