The final of the four humours of music. The literalism humour like, the impressionism humour, defines what a piece of music says and how it says it. Unlike the impressionism humour, the meaning of music with a high level of the literalism humour comes directly from the creator rather than the listener. The most obvious [...]
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The Literalism Humour
Posted in My Music, Other's Music, tagged Classical, Folk, Jazz, Lyrics, Music Theory, Politics In Music, Pop, Punk on October 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Impressionism Humour
Posted in My Music, Other's Music, tagged Classical, Jazz, Music Theory, Post-rock, Shoe-gazing on October 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Whereas the levels of the mathematics and the neurophysiology humours in a piece of music are a result of the music and it’s performance, can’t be consciously altered or planned and are musical genre and cultural tradition independent, the impressionism and literalism humours are a result of the conscious thinking of the artiste … what [...]
The Neurophysiology Humour
Posted in My Music, Other's Music, tagged Bluegrass, Blues, Jazz, Lyrics, Music Theory, Prog Rock, Punk on October 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The aspect of music that affects the subconscious. The aspect of music that makes you tap you feet despite your best efforts not to, makes you want to dance, makes you want to fuck, makes you play air guitar although you really, really know you shouldn’t, makes you smile, makes you cry without being able [...]
Inversion Perversions
Posted in My Music, tagged Berle, Chord-melody, Classical, Jazz, Martin Taylor, Music Theory, Noodling, Rhythm, Sor on November 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Had a moment of clarity recently with regards my guitar playing, where I could suddenly see how to play guitar and it seemed something I could achieve. What I mean is I could suddenly see how to play guitar properly, like my friends where they can just pick up a guitar and play something that [...]
