Music Club: Ouverture (Term XXII Activity #01)

[flyingharmony.livejournal.com]

Activity: Ouverture
Points: Long debate: Participation 10pts, Additional comment: 2pts, 30pts limit.
Deadline: Submit your answers by Monday, April 30th @ 22:59 UTC (timezone converter).
Details: New club leader, new luck, don't they say? Let's start with discussing a fundamental question: Music. We all love music, at least we who joined the music club. But what does music mean? Can we define music like we can define physical laws? What does music mean to us, how does it influence our lives, our thinking, etc? There's lots of material for discussions. As always, you'll get ten points for your initial comment (which should be at least 100-150 words long) and two more for each additional comment (I'm not giving you any limits for this, but please, show that you've put some thought and effort in it, just saying "I agree/don't agree" isn't enough) with a limit of 30 points as a total.

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Note #2: As always, please don't forget to sign each comment with your name&house and to check if you're on the roster - there will be no grace periods!

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. Victor Hugo recommends you to join the Club.

Comments

[anbyrobanby.livejournal.com]

It's interesting a discussion, what defines music. You would be tempted to say it's melodic, but you can have some amazing percussion that is very much nothing to do with pitch sequences. You could say an instrument is key, but some of the best music is purely vocal- singing a cappella for instance. Heck, birdsong is often musical.... yet it doesn't quite fit in a nice neat box. It's very tricky to quantify music, but I think it's better represented by what it does to the recipient. After all, what one person may call Music, another might call Turn Down That Bleeding Noise. It's totally subjective, but I think music should resonate with something within you. Some people might go as so far sa to say it touches your soul (though I find that a bit precocious). Regardless, it's a sound you'd want to listen to again and again, and you'd often find out something new about it (or, possibly, yourself) each time you pay it heed. You can't say the same thing about a car alarm.

Rob//Gryffindor

[slumber.livejournal.com]

I think this is because music is an art form, for me at least, and as such it becomes defined less by what it is than by what its audience/creator thinks it is, if that makes sense?

(Admittedly, I am of the opinion that I can put a can of soup in the middle of the road and call it an art installation. I may do that cheekily but there will be people who can derive from the piece some interpretation that moves them, one way or another. But just because I didn't mean anything by creating the piece does not mean it loses any sort of artistic significance, though, does it?)

Evy/Claw