Instrumental Music for Studying

[promethean75]

wait hold up. will you be able to tell that above post of mine was a joke with your reader, Maia? fuck I didn't even think about that.

you're probably like what the hell is this guy talking about. 'nag' as in 'scold' or 'badger'. okay I'll uh... I'll just go now. Sorry.

[ThinkOfOne]

I've found some mix of cello or contrabass, or with a duduk flute as in this case, works best when I study. If I hear voices or uplifting, spirited music my concentration is thrown off. I mostly do this if copying a manuscript.

Today I'm doing Vol. 4 of the Agni Purana, chapter 247 "The characteristics of a building site". Then I'll likely track down some random Chinese myth that catches my eye and copy it too, or at least take notes. This kind of music is perfect for deep somatic digestion of a text.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=odP72Q_MO ... ZHVkdWs%3D

Try the late works of Morton Feldman; one of the great composers of the 20th century.

I can recommend this recording of "Crippled Symmetry": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxjFV0jMPX8

Eberhard Blum (flute, alto flute, bass flute)
Jan Williams (glockenspiel, vibraphone)
Nils Vigeland (piano, celesta)

Interestingly the work is intentionally indeterminate. While the part for each of the three musicians is precisely notated - including tempo markings, the parts are not coordinated with each other into a fixed ensemble score. As a result, with a 90 minute duration each realization yields different results.

If that's too busy for you, try this recording of "For Bunita Marcus"

Hildegard Kleeb (piano)

[vegetariantaxidermy]

You are a marxist.

I'm not an anything 'ist'. I just know what a song is. And you are a pretentious twit.

[vegetariantaxidermy]

"An instrumental or instrumental song is music normally without any vocals, although it might include some inarticulate vocals, such as shouted backup vocals in a big band setting. Through semantic widening, a broader sense of the word song may refer to instrumentals." wiki

"Usually a song is a musical piece with words, and a piece with no words will be termed an instrumental, or a piece of music. Yes, they are still considered songs." italki

https://homerecording.com/bbs/threads/a ... gs.366924/



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Then there are those instrumentals like the love theme from Cinema Paradiso...
https://youtu.be/TflvNm22cpk
https://youtu.be/RnPz2lU5B-k

One day I'm listening to the radio and I hear the song with vocals. Not this one...

https://youtu.be/jNQ8e-cAD7M

...but another female vocalist singing in the English language.

For fuck sake. You really need to 'wiki' 'what is a song'? A song is a song? If it's instrumental only then it's a 'piece' or a 'work'. And who actually cares what some illiterate yank 'thinks'?

[Constantine]

Alexander - Farya Faraji

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=24qdl97N8FQ

More of walking song than study.

[iambiguous]

"An instrumental or instrumental song is music normally without any vocals, although it might include some inarticulate vocals, such as shouted backup vocals in a big band setting. Through semantic widening, a broader sense of the word song may refer to instrumentals." wiki

"Usually a song is a musical piece with words, and a piece with no words will be termed an instrumental, or a piece of music. Yes, they are still considered songs." italki

https://homerecording.com/bbs/threads/a ... gs.366924/



Edit:

Then there are those instrumentals like the love theme from Cinema Paradiso...
https://youtu.be/TflvNm22cpk
https://youtu.be/RnPz2lU5B-k

One day I'm listening to the radio and I hear the song with vocals. Not this one...

https://youtu.be/jNQ8e-cAD7M

...but another female vocalist singing in the English language.

For fuck sake. You really need to 'wiki' 'what is a song'? A song is a song? If it's instrumental only then it's a 'piece' or a 'work'. And who actually cares what some illiterate yank 'thinks'?

There she goes again!!!

By the way, Harry Frankfurt once wrote a book about her. He's now dead. No bullshit.

[vegetariantaxidermy]

"An instrumental or instrumental song is music normally without any vocals, although it might include some inarticulate vocals, such as shouted backup vocals in a big band setting. Through semantic widening, a broader sense of the word song may refer to instrumentals." wiki

"Usually a song is a musical piece with words, and a piece with no words will be termed an instrumental, or a piece of music. Yes, they are still considered songs." italki

https://homerecording.com/bbs/threads/a ... gs.366924/



Edit:

Then there are those instrumentals like the love theme from Cinema Paradiso...
https://youtu.be/TflvNm22cpk
https://youtu.be/RnPz2lU5B-k

One day I'm listening to the radio and I hear the song with vocals. Not this one...

https://youtu.be/jNQ8e-cAD7M

...but another female vocalist singing in the English language.

For fuck sake. You really need to 'wiki' 'what is a song'? A song is a song? If it's instrumental only then it's a 'piece' or a 'work'. And who actually cares what some illiterate yank 'thinks'?

There she goes again!!!

By the way, Harry Frankfurt once wrote a book about her. He's now dead. No bullshit.

Condescending little C***. My field is music, and I know a wanky poseur when I see one.

[iambiguous]

My own experience with music revolves primarily around the manner in which, while listening to it, I am able to feel nothing short of extraordinary emotional reactions. And with music, unlike with "real life", the intensity of the emotions is sustained as long as the music is playing. And you can play the music over and over and over again. I have songs on my cassettes that repeat five or more times.

With "reality" on the other hand, the intensity can seem greater but often only "in the moment". Before long other things pop into your head or new events unfold and it's all gone. Or you start thinking about what you felt and that diminishes the feeling. Or you begin to feel something else entirely.

That's why for me I want to know nothing at all about music technically. That gets me to thinking about what I'm listening to and that distracts me from what I listen to music for...the emotions. Or the beauty.

Also, I rarely pay any attention at all to the vocals. The voice is just another instrument to me. Though on occasion with songs like this -- https://youtu.be/Kueq3dYyBLE -- the music and the lyrics are so in sync my reaction is actually heightened.

Finally, unlike many I've known, who "get in the mood" for particular kinds of music, I'm just the opposite. With my cassettes I never know what will pop up next. The songs segue from blues to rock to folk to trance to bluegrass to avant-garde to space music to pop to reggae to electronic. I simply shift gears in my head and feel what I do.

[Constantine]

I'm more tactical in my approach. Music is for a purpose, like a Spartan Marching song. The cadence has a purpose beyond mere beauty, it's to promote synchronized foot steps so a unit can travel together. I went to a symphony a couple weeks back- free. Was largely bored, just patriotic songs, sat stuck between people who never did anything for their country. I didn't derive any positive emotions from it. And was disappointed the 1812 song lacked cannons. Used being indoors as a excuse. Bullshit.

[Maia]

wait hold up. will you be able to tell that above post of mine was a joke with your reader, Maia? fuck I didn't even think about that.

you're probably like what the hell is this guy talking about. 'nag' as in 'scold' or 'badger'. okay I'll uh... I'll just go now. Sorry.

Yes, I got it, it's ok.

[Constantine]

Balmorhea- Remembrance

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=C-wu2VcYN ... 19&pp=8AUB

[Constantine]

Brian Eno - Prophecy Theme (3 hours)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3qsUvCmA7 ... N5IHRoZW1l

[Constantine]

Mesa- 3 hours

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=phOZLRCmv ... 91cg%3D%3D

[Constantine]

The Wall - 1 hour

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zfZR3sz1vuE

[Constantine]

Naseer Shamma

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CcZw2yeKZho