I will be the first to admit that music is one of the first things I turn to when I feel a little emotional. Like many people I know, I have a playlist designated to music that helps prolong any specific emotion, specifically to mention perhaps a more saddened emotion. This might not be the most beneficial solution, but it is a momentarily helpful coping mechanism. In class on 10\/7, we asked ourselves, what aspect of a song makes us emotional? Initially, it was an obvious answer to me that it is the lyrics that resonated with me emotionally, and the lyrics make me appreciate listening to those songs at that moment. This thought was quickly overturned when we were able to match the song Hallelujah to a different instrument and the mood of the song had quickly turned. Pairing such a commonly written slow song to an electric guitar, well I can’t say I felt sad during that moment. This lead me to change my mind and believe that it wasn’t the lyrics, it was the music made behind the words. This leads me to the discovery of dissonance and how musicians use this idea to directing their song towards a certain emotional tie for the audience. Understanding this change in perspective will allow me to move forward with how I react to certain music and under what circumstance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I will be the first to admit that music is one of the first things I turn to when I feel a little emotional. Like many people I know, I have a playlist designated to music that helps prolong any specific emotion, specifically to mention perhaps a more saddened emotion. This might not be the… Continue reading Lyrics or Dissonance?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9196747,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/pca263fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/pca263fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/pca263fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/pca263fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9196747"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/pca263fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=609"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/pca263fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":610,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/pca263fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions\/610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/pca263fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/pca263fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/pca263fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}