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My question is, what is its emotional impact and its emotional meaning in the context? How does being in a street parade, church, airport terminal, or at home in your lounge influence your musical experience — its emotional impact and meaning? its emotional impact and meaning? I think its emotional impact and meaning is its emotional impact and [its emotional] meaning. My question is, what is its emotional impact and its emotional meaning in the context? emotional impact says that we have emotional impact, we can cry, tear, laugh, smile... and emotional meaning says that we have emotional meaning, we can feel happy, sad, something like that. It it right?It might be argued that the particularities of place are central to understanding music. Outsiders might enjoy hearing or attempting to perform various musics, but presumably the experiences and sentiments provoked will be rather different. Maybe everybody’s relationship to place is important, if not critical, to his or her experience of music — whatever its form. How does being in a street parade, church, airport terminal, or at home in your lounge influence your musical experience — its emotional impact and meaning? Would all musics be equally effective, or environmentally “at home,” in these places? Is it mere coincidence that music with an electronically produced repetitive beat is the product of modern urban environments, where machines and cars are ubiquitous? To argue this in terms of a simple causal relationship would be ridiculously naive, but to entirely discount acoustic ecology would also seem unwise.
Aug 23, 2014 8:50 PM
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This is a difficult question. The phrases used do not have well defined meanings. Even a native speaker has to guess. "Emotional impact" might mean how strong the feeling is. "Emotional meaning" might mean "what emotions are felt." In a street parade, you are participating physically and you are inside the music. Emotion might be stronger. In the U.S. the commonest kind of street parade is a Fourth of July (Independence Day) parade. The same march might feel like "absolute music" when the Boston Pops Orchestra plays it in a concert hall, or patriotic when it is played in a parade. Conversely, hearing music in an airport terminal trivializes and distances it. The composer George Gershwin wrote: "It was on the train, with its steely rhythms, its rattle-ty bang, that is so often so stimulating to a composer – I frequently hear music in the very heart of the noise.... And there I suddenly heard, and even saw on paper – the complete construction of the Rhapsody [In Blue], from beginning to end."
August 23, 2014
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