VIDEO (plus cool website): How Music Works
Lately, I've been going bonkers for the website Brain Pickings. They "curate eclectic interestingness from culture's collective brain." I'm try to check the site at least once a day because they pick such interesting materials. That out of the way, yesterday they highlighted the BBC 4 Doc "How Music Works." I'll let the Brain Pickings highlight the video for you...
Dec. 09, 2010
How Music Works By Maria Popova
Music. It’s hard to imagine life without it. How flat would a world be where films have no scores, birthdays no ‘Happy Birthday,’ Christmas no carols, gym workouts no playlist? Music is so ubiquitous and affects us so deeply, so powerfully. But how much do we really know about it? How well do we understand its emotional hold on our brains? How Music Works, a fascinating program from BBC4 (the same folks who brought us The End of God?: A Horizon Guide to Science and Religion), explores just that.
Composer Howard Goodall takes us on a journey into music’s underbelly, examining the four basic elements that make it work: Melody, rhythm, harmony and bass.
Melody is music’s most powerful tool when it comes to touching our emotions. Our mothers sign lullabies to us when we’re infants and tests have shown that we can even, as babies, recognize tunes that we heard in he womb.”
Every music system in the world shares these five notes in common. Indeed, they’re so fundamental to every note composed or performed anywhere on the planet that it seems, like our instinct for language, that they were pre-installed in us when we were born. These five notes a human genetic inheritance, like the fingers on our hands.”
Catch the four remaining parts of Melody here: 2, 3, 4, 5.
Read more: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2010/12/09/how-music-works/#...
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