Two years ago I thought to myself, “I don’t understand music.”
Why?
I can listen to classical music, then rock, then rap, then musical parody, sung poetry, postmodern music, and so on, and so on, and so on… …and I can’t find many common elements for these songs… And I really can’t understand what music is?
By the way – when I was young I thought that music was mainly melody + rhythm. About 10 years ago I got to know the “cosmic”, emotional dimension of music thanks to W. Komendarek, and only for the last two years have I been listening to music “beyond the rules”. Maybe I understand more now… but I feel like I understand less…
John commented (via email) on my doubts: “For me my background was to treat music as language, a superior one.”. And this is where I have doubts about the meaning of music. What kind of “language” is it if it is “different” for so many songs?? Maybe it’s the language of angels? Maybe it’s the language of our souls? What do they express, what can they express, what can the style of the work prove about the creator? Can anything be proven about them? Apparently so – but I have never found the “global” key. For example, my parents hardly listen to music at all. Does this in any way indicate the quality of their souls? About their life paths, about themselves? You can trace billions of tastes and… I doubt whether there will be a global algorithm describing what music is…