Long ago I gave up questioning it... I just sing -or quote- along.
And in your dreams
You can see yourself
As a prophet
Saving the world
As a matter of fact, I live in Orange County, the one he sang about... ;-)
If Zappa's music were only one tenth as good as his quotes I'd actually buy one of his records and play it.
The fondness of our species for music is related to the fact that we are just starting to evolve into sentient beings. At our primitive stage of evolution, music still needs to facilitate the finding of a suitable mate.
More modern higher primates will devise more effective means of courtship, soundless means. Our faculties to produce and consume music will atrophy as result.
The writing is on the wall. Since the advent of internet dating, music has been going downhill. Fast.
More modern higher primates will devise more effective means of courtship, soundless means. Our faculties to produce and consume music will atrophy as result.
The writing is on the wall. Since the advent of internet dating, music has been going downhill. Fast.
Vacuphile is right, music as mating ritual. I mentioned in #22 "balladic rule of thirds", two songs from The Book of Odes collected by Confucius c.2500BC -- indeed they are love/marriage songs.
That does not explain why other species including some birds like parrots and owls seem to be very fond of music and are actually dancing.
I would say drum beats and chanting is the essence of music and maybe the root of all music that ever existed. So I take your comment as irony in order to not get triggered too hard..
Music taste is a very personal thing. I could say lots of bad things about most disco music (from my "point of taste") but I will refuse to do so.
My moniker is also a bit ironic. However it may be the root, it’s definitely not the fruit.
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Yes, Zappa is the best...
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Oh... The Orange County Lumber Truck. Montana, Telefunken U47...
I suppose I shouldn't bring up the Grateful Dead... no, not their studio albums, their live albums. I've done thousands of Interstate miles listening to the Dead Channel on XM. My mind gets into a happy trance and the miles and Botts Dots just go by and by so long as my bladder and gas tank last.
Oregon is best done listening to Dark Star non stop from Weed to Kalama.
Indeed, the Dead and Zappa are best in their live recordings, unfettered by commercial radio and LP limits.
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+1Yes, Zappa is the best...
"Information is not knowledge.
Knowledge is not wisdom.
Wisdom is not truth.
Truth is not beauty.
Beauty is not love.
Love is not music.
Music is THE BEST". (lyrics from Joe’s Garage: Acts I, II & III "Packard Goose" 1979)
Q.: So, if music is the best, what is music?
A.: Anything can be music, but it doesn't become music until someone wills it to be music, and the audience listening to it decides to perceive it as music.
This statement, and its emphasis on the role of both the composer and the audience in determining something as music, raises the question of how Zappa constructs his own theory of art and artistic value.
From the following really great article by Elliot Marlow-Stevens (published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 March 2022)
https://www.cambridge.org/core/jour...heory-of-art/6627365CBA04BDDED9D6533306CE1220
Enjoy 🙂
Of course I can't say how ironic or not your statement is, but accepting it as true then I believe that maybe it's not music for you, continuing to be real music for me or for anyone else.
Thinking to the fact that before coming to light everyone has mainly perceived and listened to both the beat of his mother's heart and of his own heart - a rhythmic and percussive beat - for several months I believe that it remains the most beautiful and the first Music, at least for me.
Also, I believe Music may be fruit and root at the same time, because Music has no limits of mind.
Cheers