![]() And this from a reasonably sophisticated kid who’s had twelve years of serious cello lessons, and that brings up, I suppose, a point: that although I don’t know much about your music I think I can teach you a great deal about your music by using the paradigms of classical music. I asked him, “Well, what’s the mode of the piece? What’s the meter of the piece? What’s the bass doing? Can you follow the bass line there? Can you identify any chords in this particular piece?” Nothing. Here, you listen to this and tell me what you’re hearing.” And what did - what was he tracking? He was tracking the text he was tracking the beat of the piece. What are you listening to?” So I listened to it and I said, “All right. “You’re ruining my life again.” So “Well now, come on. The last of the four has now turned seventeen so I said last weekend - he’s always with the iPod on - “Chris, what are you listening to?” “Go away. Well, experience, to some degree, but also an experiment that I did just last weekend. How do I know this? What makes me think that you are not getting as much as you possibly can out of your music? But are you getting the most out of this particular experience? Are you getting the most out of your listening experience? I contend that perhaps you are not, that you are not maximizing the time, using that time most profitably. You probably do.īut what kind of music are you listening to? Well, probably pop music and that’s fine that’s okay, fair enough, pop music. ![]() I bet I listen to a lot more music than you do, you old goat.” And you’re right. I listen to music in my dorm room off my computer, in the bookstore, wherever. I’ve got my car…” (What do we call those things in the automobile where you - Is it a DAT tape that you can take your iPod and plug it in to the - your - the stereo system in your car?) “I’ve got that. I’ve got, what, my iPod, I’m downloading mp3 files, continually swapping files. Its aim is to teach you how to listen to music. ![]() My name is Craig Wright and this is “Listening to Music,” the most basic course that the Department of Music has to offer.
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