How to Listen to Jazz
Thelonious Monk playing “Honeysuckle Rose”.
Haruki Murakami • Norwegian Wood
How do you want to feel?
The human brain is wired to respond to sound. Music adds meaning and dimension that is hard to capture with just text.
Elements such as pitch, melody, harmony, timbre, amplitude, scale, and tones, along with the graduated series of notes or intervals dividing octaves, have an affective, emotional, psychological, cognitive, an
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