Music update...
Aug. 10th, 2007 07:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
khiemtranToday, I discovered how to appreciate harpsicord music. This was completely unexpected. Previously, I'd always regarded the harpsicord as tolerable at best, and tedious and grating at worst. As Sir Thomas Beecham is supposed to have said, "like two skeletons copulating on a tin roof". In general, I much prefer the sound of a modern piano in place of the harpsicord in almost any keyboard piece.
The breakthrough came as I was listening to a Mozart violin concerto on the way home from work (played, obviously enough, not on a harpsicord but on a violin). I was listening for the intervals between the notes and it suddenly struck me that even the harshest notes could still sound sweet if there was a perfect interval between them. And then I realized that you could listen to the jangle jangle of the harpsicord not as a collection of notes, but as a series of intervals.
Meanwhile, another hard day at work, but at least the weekend is here.
The breakthrough came as I was listening to a Mozart violin concerto on the way home from work (played, obviously enough, not on a harpsicord but on a violin). I was listening for the intervals between the notes and it suddenly struck me that even the harshest notes could still sound sweet if there was a perfect interval between them. And then I realized that you could listen to the jangle jangle of the harpsicord not as a collection of notes, but as a series of intervals.
Meanwhile, another hard day at work, but at least the weekend is here.
