Live data from Hacker News

How Music Hijacks Our Perception of Time

nautil.us

31–32 of 32 posts

Re: How Music Hijacks Our Perception of Time

#31
post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not impoverished, it just has a different function. You could equally say "classical music is impoverished by its dismissal of danceability" (and you'd be equally wrong)

But there is lots of danceable classical music. My point is that mainstream music rigidly adheres to steady tempo and rhythm. If you only listen to mainstream music (like most people) then you don't hear much exploration of that entire 'dimension' of music.

I think that you and I have very different feelings about what is "danceable".

I don't have much time to listen to a lot of different types of music these days.

Re: How Music Hijacks Our Perception of Time

#32
post #30

It's odd that the author does not specify what string quartet he is referring to, just calling it "The String Quartet"- Schubert had 15 of them.

In fact, it is a quintet, not a quartet, that the author was referring to. And it was the one in C major, as made clear in the beginning.

Interesting that I repeatedly saw quartet and not quintet- probably because the assumption is so strong. He only wrote one of them, so the piece clarification was unnecessary.
Post reply on HN