Posted by baseball55 on November 17, 2013, at 20:30:15
In reply to 'mozart effect' » baseball55, posted by johnLA on November 16, 2013, at 23:34:55
The thing with Mozart is he wrote some of the most sublime music imaginable. But when you've written 41 symphonies starting at age 8, they're not all going to be great. Mostly I love Mozart. One of my very favorite all time movies is Amadeus.
Tom Lehrer, in one of his comedy acts said -- it's a sobering thought to realize that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for ten years.
I never took music history. Actually, maybe I'll try to sit in on a course this summer. Would be really fun, I imagine.
> ha!
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> 'mozart...he wrote a lot of junk.'
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> love it baseball55...
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> i taught music history for almost 30 years to 12th graders. i LOVED mozart. in fact, i would tell the kids that if i was only allowed 3 albums to take to a deserted island they would be 1. miles davis' 'kinda blue' 2. the beatles rubber soul/revolver or marvin gaye's 'what's going on and 3! the absolute 'must have' mozart's 'marriage of figaro/nozze di figaro.'
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> have you ever been to a mozart opera? it's quite sublime. even for the most cynical classical taste, i feel.
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> i would tell the kids that if mozart were alive today they would 'dig him!' he'd probably have a purple mohawk, tattoos/piercings, and be all excited about the latest rapper he was about to 'drop-in' to one of his works was well as a dj from turkey for good measure. lol
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> plus, his libretist, was quite good at sneaking in some double innuendos while the beautiful music was performed.
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> i so miss loving his music. and, teaching it too.
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> i remember coming across studies about the 'healing' properties of mozart's music specifically. brief periods of higher iq, less pain for those suffering from physical problems. curious to see if any work has been done about mental healing and mozart. again, it was specifically mozart's music and not others.
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> sigh.
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> since my depression i don't listen to music much anymore. so very strange. it was one of the biggest parts pf my life. i 'try' to listen to miles and coltrane and it is just noise now. marvin gaye just makes me feel sad because i can't 'feel' what i used to feel with him. even john lennon's voice sounds different to me. how can the brain change so much?
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> i drive withe music off. and, rarely play music at home. it is very triggering for me...
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