I do agree that people, especially in the US, can be very narrow minded culturally. Haha, maybe the educator should just be more honest and differentiate between when a musical aspect frightened the audience vs when *she's* a little frightened due to her own lack of familiarity with the aspect :)
Exactly. Because what is really dangerous is when you project your lack of cultural diversity on the whole population. Especially when you’re in a teacher’s capacity.
I definitely think there is another way to read this article. This is an English article, meaning intended for English speaking audiences. On top of this, she is discussing 19th century classical music. In both cases, a usedness to 4/4, 3/4 and 2/4 meters can be expected. Therefore, an odd meter, which simply is an accurate way to describe a meter that almost never occurs in this type of music, can be used to musically invoke these feelings of fear or uncomfortableness. This happens often in classical music. I’m afraid you are already biased to read a text made by a western scholar as xenophobic because of confirmation bias
As far as I know in XIX century Russia (she wrote about Tchaikovsky) there was all sorts of time signatures and meters used. Therefore it was not Tchaikovsky’s intend to invoke such feelings. And also she wrote this article for very contemporary online resource. With intend to explain musical terms to modern music students. Soooooo… Well, maybe it is a confirmation bias. But I think that today’s culture should expel these ideas about music.
Can you guess what time signature is the song I’ve played in the beginning?
I do agree that people, especially in the US, can be very narrow minded culturally. Haha, maybe the educator should just be more honest and differentiate between when a musical aspect frightened the audience vs when *she's* a little frightened due to her own lack of familiarity with the aspect :)
Exactly. Because what is really dangerous is when you project your lack of cultural diversity on the whole population. Especially when you’re in a teacher’s capacity.
I definitely think there is another way to read this article. This is an English article, meaning intended for English speaking audiences. On top of this, she is discussing 19th century classical music. In both cases, a usedness to 4/4, 3/4 and 2/4 meters can be expected. Therefore, an odd meter, which simply is an accurate way to describe a meter that almost never occurs in this type of music, can be used to musically invoke these feelings of fear or uncomfortableness. This happens often in classical music. I’m afraid you are already biased to read a text made by a western scholar as xenophobic because of confirmation bias
As far as I know in XIX century Russia (she wrote about Tchaikovsky) there was all sorts of time signatures and meters used. Therefore it was not Tchaikovsky’s intend to invoke such feelings.
And also she wrote this article for very contemporary online resource. With intend to explain musical terms to modern music students. Soooooo…
Well, maybe it is a confirmation bias. But I think that today’s culture should expel these ideas about music.
You can dance, if you want to.
Great! Let's dance then!
Undancable 😂 ha-ha
Some people are this stupid. Unfortunately
You are seeing waaaay too much in her commentary. Relax.
Well she could’ve chosen other descriptions. But she didn’t.