Came across this interesting article about how musical tones are based in human vocal chords.
DURHAM, N.C. -- The use of 12 tone intervals in the music of many human cultures is rooted in the physics of how our vocal anatomy produces speech, according to researchers at the Duke University Center for Cognitive Neuroscience.
DURHAM, N.C. -- The use of 12 tone intervals in the music of many human cultures is rooted in the physics of how our vocal anatomy produces speech, according to researchers at the Duke University Center for Cognitive Neuroscience.
I don’t know BD. A music therapist spoke to a professional development meeting I attended in the 90s. She thought that music worked for mentally retarded people because it involves a different part of the brain than cognition. I don’t know if she was right or wrong.
I like all kinds of music – things that I got from my grandmother – Bob Wills, Gene Autry, Tommy Dorsey and Glenn Miller. She even had Count Basie’s Open the Door Richard on a 78.
My mother loved Perry Como and my father liked Nat "King" Cole.
I still like what my grandmother and parents like, but I’ve expanded – the blues and RB of the 40s and early 50s the mid 50s rockers, the protest stuff of the 60s, the British Invasion, the groups like the Eagles, The Supremes, The Temptations, Australia’s AC/DC obscure big bands like Jimmy Lunceford and on and on.
I don’t deeply analyze any of it – I analyze enough in other areas – I just enjoy.
I recently ordered a CD of New Orleans based Lloyd Price’s 1952-53 Specialty label recordings. “Lawdy Miss Clawdy” “sends me” as Sam Cooke told us. The original 1952 version (a hit on the RB, but not the pop charts) featured Fats Domino on piano backed Dave Barthlowmew’s band. It had a slow to medium tempo that the listener just sort of naturally got into. Elvis Presley did a cover on “Lawdy Miss Clawdy.” His version was good, but lacked the power of Dominio’s piano and Barthlomew’s band. Price recut “Lawdy Miss Claude” for another label years later. He upped the tempo to the point that it sounded more like they were racing to a fire than playing music. I liked Price’s original version better than Presley’s, but Presley’s better than Price’s recut.
I don’t know if this is what you wanted, but it keeps your somewhat interesting thread on the playing field.
Again, I analyze things musical a little, but not much. I just enjoy.
I like all kinds of music – things that I got from my grandmother – Bob Wills, Gene Autry, Tommy Dorsey and Glenn Miller. She even had Count Basie’s Open the Door Richard on a 78.
My mother loved Perry Como and my father liked Nat "King" Cole.
I still like what my grandmother and parents like, but I’ve expanded – the blues and RB of the 40s and early 50s the mid 50s rockers, the protest stuff of the 60s, the British Invasion, the groups like the Eagles, The Supremes, The Temptations, Australia’s AC/DC obscure big bands like Jimmy Lunceford and on and on.
I don’t deeply analyze any of it – I analyze enough in other areas – I just enjoy.
I recently ordered a CD of New Orleans based Lloyd Price’s 1952-53 Specialty label recordings. “Lawdy Miss Clawdy” “sends me” as Sam Cooke told us. The original 1952 version (a hit on the RB, but not the pop charts) featured Fats Domino on piano backed Dave Barthlowmew’s band. It had a slow to medium tempo that the listener just sort of naturally got into. Elvis Presley did a cover on “Lawdy Miss Clawdy.” His version was good, but lacked the power of Dominio’s piano and Barthlomew’s band. Price recut “Lawdy Miss Claude” for another label years later. He upped the tempo to the point that it sounded more like they were racing to a fire than playing music. I liked Price’s original version better than Presley’s, but Presley’s better than Price’s recut.
I don’t know if this is what you wanted, but it keeps your somewhat interesting thread on the playing field.
Again, I analyze things musical a little, but not much. I just enjoy.
Like you, I enjoy a wide range of music. Classical, marching band, madrigals, folk, filk, choral, country, western, southern rock, Tex-mex, swing, big band, jazz, rock, pop, praise, Celtic, Gregorian chants, Motown, British Invasion, classical guitar, etc. Most of it I don't analyze, although the "History of Rock n Roll" that I took back in the day was wayyyy cool. I really don't like most Indian music and the like because of the different tonal scales. Sounds to me like cats being tortured.
I thought the article was pretty cool, especially the stuff about the "formants", never knew that. Wayyy, way back in the day (grade school) when I underwent speech therapy, vowels weren't the problem, and even if they had been, I doubt very much that I would have been interested in the subject.
I thought the article was pretty cool, especially the stuff about the "formants", never knew that. Wayyy, way back in the day (grade school) when I underwent speech therapy, vowels weren't the problem, and even if they had been, I doubt very much that I would have been interested in the subject.
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