Klarinet Archive - Posting 000364.txt from 2005/07

From: Austin Hogan <ajhogan@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Re: Personal preferences
Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2005 19:33:37 -0400

I think it is very interesting that that lady cannot finish a piece of
music if you understands the meaning behing, but that's just proof
that people are so very different.

On 7/30/05, Ormondtoby Montoya wrote:
>=20
> It turned out that the subjects to whom the unanswered 'mystery' had
> been explained and explicitly highlighted remembered the original
> explanation more accurately than the subjects who, at the time, felt
> that everything was explained and no mystery or unanswered question
> remained.
>=20
> In a similar fashion, I have wondered if music appeals more to many
> people than reading a book does, because music _is_ more ambiguous and
> less analyzable than language. The effort required to learn how to
> read is an important factor of course....

I think the deep connection with music and part of the experiment is
very fascinating. I have often wondered myself what is so special, and
what I have come up with is that it is an intangible. Our primary
sense is sight. Music, unlike like most things in the world is not at
all related to that sense. It has a special connection with our mind
because there is nothing else like it. Your mind must work together
with the music to understand it in some sense. For example, a movie
gives you evrything you need to comprehend it, it gives you sights and
sounds, but more importantly it does not have mystery. The mind does
not have to work as hard to process this information. With music there
is mystery therefore the mind tries to unlock it and develops a
special connection with the music. Every time you listen to the same
piece of music you get something new from. You have a desire to go
back to that because you want to unlock a part of the mystery. Because
there is more to get out of the music than in just one sitting, it
puts it in a different part of the brain. Just like the two people
given information about the crayfish the one who was told all the
information without any mystery put that info in a different part of
his brain. The person who was told the information with some mystery
put it in a part of their brain that would remember it because there
was still something to get out of it. The metaphor I have is that it
is like a book, when you are finished with the book you put it back on
the shelf, but the book your in the middle of you leave out, on a
table a nightstand, you might even bring it around with you. In time
the book on the shelf gets dusty, and you might even forget about, but
the book that you are reading is not dusty, and you do not forget
about it. The brain put the unfinished information in a place where it
is easy to access. This of course is just a theory and can easily be
proven wrong with examples, but there are also many examples that fit
into this theory.

I hope this all makes sense, if you have any questions about something
that doesn't make sense since I could have written wrong don't
hesistate to email me.

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