Well, that doesn’t stop one from liking music, no? Music has such a wide range, there is music without rhythm/beat (or a very different understanding of the concept of “rhythm”), without melody or patterns in general. I think this just narrows down your choice, but doesn’t make you hate music.
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folkrav@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
“Amusia” is apparently a thing, which would be the inability to feel patterns in pitch, beat and/or rhythm in music, so I can definitely see those people not enjoying music so much. I can’t relate at all, but I guess I can’t exactly relate to what it’s like to be blind either…
Blyfh@lemmy.world 8 months ago
folkrav@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Note that I’m using these terms in their largest, most generic sense. Melody as elements of pitch with some kind of temporal progression. Beat as in a regular pulse around which sounds are organized. Rhythm as a form of temporal repetition or pattern (you can have rhythm without a beat). As far as I know, they’re pretty much the fundamental differentiating elements versus what’s just called noise.
I know there are types of music that stretches the limits of what most consider music, but I’m trying very hard to think about a single thing we’d call music that doesn’t have at least one of those elements, and I just can’t. Maybe you could come up with some examples, cause I really can’t haha. I was thinking of things like Perendecki’s Threnody, but it definitely has melodic elements, despite being mostly extremely ambiant and atonal/dissonant. John Cage’s Prepared Piano stuff is basically all rhythm. Most ambiant music is extremely melodic.
kratoz29@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Nos that we are talking about disabilities… I didn’t even consider deaf people… Perhaps some deaf people are not capable of liking music? (I suppose there are levels of deaf, as blind people do).
Chetzemoka@startrek.website 8 months ago
Deaf people can still feel vibrations from music, and in my experience tend to enjoy that quite a lot
Fondots@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I had a teacher once who used to work at a school for the deaf and he told us about their school dances. Apparently they would crank the bass way up so everyone could feel the vibrations, and apparently a lot of the kids would carry balloons around because you can really feel it in the balloons, it actually sounded like a pretty cool experience
christophski@feddit.uk 8 months ago
Haha we used to do the balloon thing at raves