Music
So, I've been taking a course in music. Not with instruments, mind; rather, this is a course for "understanding music." What this course entails is taking me through the basics of music and music history, with a smattering of the culture present that brought that particular music forth. It focuses on western (European/American) music, because much more than that would make for a huge coursebook.
I like this course. It comes with three CDs that are full of music to listen to. Due to this, I now have expanded my eclectic collection. I have Madrigals, Sonatas, Arias, Mbira music, Monophonic and Polyphonic Chant, and even a song by troubadours! Also, the entirety of Beethoven's 5th. But still...
I read the book on watch, because there really isn't much else to do. Before you get all upset, my watchstation is the last point in a long line. If something happens that I need to be concerned with, everyone else has noticed it and I have plenty of time to throw my book aside and push the one button necessary. Anyway, as I'm reading, the book provides musical notation on occasion, and suddenly I have a song stuck in my head. But you know what? It gets worse. I was reading the chapter on Jazz, and suddenly I have a jazz line in my head. Strangely, I am certain I've never heard it before. I don't have the ear to be able to write it down, and there's no (musical) instruments allowed in CIC, so I can only sit there and listen. By the end of watch, this mystery tune had merged itself seamlessly with "Zoot Suit Riot" and the music from the Star Wars Cantina.
I have no idea how that happened.
I like this course. It comes with three CDs that are full of music to listen to. Due to this, I now have expanded my eclectic collection. I have Madrigals, Sonatas, Arias, Mbira music, Monophonic and Polyphonic Chant, and even a song by troubadours! Also, the entirety of Beethoven's 5th. But still...
I read the book on watch, because there really isn't much else to do. Before you get all upset, my watchstation is the last point in a long line. If something happens that I need to be concerned with, everyone else has noticed it and I have plenty of time to throw my book aside and push the one button necessary. Anyway, as I'm reading, the book provides musical notation on occasion, and suddenly I have a song stuck in my head. But you know what? It gets worse. I was reading the chapter on Jazz, and suddenly I have a jazz line in my head. Strangely, I am certain I've never heard it before. I don't have the ear to be able to write it down, and there's no (musical) instruments allowed in CIC, so I can only sit there and listen. By the end of watch, this mystery tune had merged itself seamlessly with "Zoot Suit Riot" and the music from the Star Wars Cantina.
I have no idea how that happened.