The Arts in NYC

Well, I, personally, don’t feel the need to muse on things like this, making things more complicated than they are, trying to define music, life and such, and simply listen to music and simply live life, but I shall comment.
Yup, so what he said.

See what brilliance of thought lies in semi-still waters.

Jonathan Swift noted about A Tale of the Tub, “Good God! What a genius I had when I wrote that book.”

Andrew will one day be able to say that about this entry on music.

(By the way, no one thinks Andrew is not intelligent. We thought he was exercising a dry sense of humor.)

I completely agree. I find that I have a hard time classifying music of foreign languages because there is no particular genre of music they fall into. Because of this, I just give up. I find myself enjoying foreign music more than english music because I don’t understand the words. I can listen to the song and voice and just enjoy it as it is. Of course I enjoy english music also (Switchfoot!!!), but that’s only if I enjoy the words to it. Unfortunately, there aren’t many (english) whose words touch me.
Btw, I don’t think you’re unintelligent, it’s just that prof Judell likes to make you seem that way when he replies. Many of your comments are quite relevant.

I agree. The greatest thing about music, or any art for that matter, is the emotion that it evokes. A song is great when it gives you goosebumps, or makes you feel happy when you are blue, or relaxes you when you are frustrated. This changes for everyone. For me, everytime I hear Nessun Dorma I get chills but that is not the case for everybody. The classification is irrelevant to the effect it produces.

Everyone is not entitled to an opinion. In fact, studies show that only 60% of Americans are. This is likely because many form opinions, but are not able to back them up, with any fact at all. This of course relates to opinions formed regarding matters of knowledge. And, no, i don’t believe that you’re not entitled to an opinion–the very fact you’re with us in MHC is testament to that fact. As far as music goes, you are correct in that everyone is entitled to an opinion, because these opinions feed off emotion, and can not be validated in an objective sense. However, if you’re studying engineering, i urge you to re-evaulate your non-objective, non absolute, relativistic world view, as engineering requires just the opposite. Try attempting to construct a skyscraper without placing absolute faith in Mechanics, the Stregnth of the Steel you are using, the presence of the earth below it, and let’s say the value of g (grav. accel). If any of these change, or are relative as you say, then how may we construct, or claim to know anything. My question for you then, is: What is Science? (i might make a separate topic on this)…

Please do so :p, that topic is interesting actually. It will be fun to write about stuff like that.
I like to view things in many different perspectives, I view through the eyes of religion, science, and “art” (which is free supposedly). But as an engineering major I know that I must take things more objectively and such.
Look forward to reading and commenting on your Science topic.

Andrew, you definitely see things in a different perspective!
I totally agree with neelu on this one. Everyone is different, therefore everyone will have a different opinion on certain things. This is because art, music, and religion all evoke a different emotion in people. Personally, I don’t like listening to old sappy songs because it just does not make me happy. I prefer fast, up-beat music, because that, on the other hand, does make me happy.