https://padlet.com/emilysanchez4/9iwp1r9mk9kp Padlet #6 en-us 2017-10-09 15:50:52 UTC 2024-09-05 17:10:56 UTC hello@padlet.com emilysanchez4 https://padlet.com/emilysanchez4/9iwp1r9mk9kp/wish/195282913 Ratliff defines transmission as this, "extreme form of emotion in music that transcends specific moods". I have to agree with this concept and this statement in general. I highly associate music and emotion together, therefore this idea of specific moods being transcended to have this feeling of "all-consuming, all-immersing" power is something I have felt. I feel this type of power while both actively listening to music as well as performing. However I do believe that sometimes the songs, or sounds that cause me to feel an overcoming of emotions might not have the same affect on someone else. Ratliff tells of Charles Rosen and his argument that, "emotion is definitely expressed through music, but not through a universally applicable secret code". Everyone experiences music differently. It's just like in class last week where we discussed good and bad taste in music. There is no way to truly judge what is good and bad in a universal manner, because it is based entirely on preference. This is just as there is no way to say how someone feels after listening to a piece of music. Sure there are connotations to pieces and like stated in the chapter most times people have a sense of what a song or piece is based on through society and what is talked about. However as Ratliff notes, "Music can in fact whisper, rage, and rustle. But love and anger occur only within our hearts". Overall I have to agree with Ratliff and this idea of transmission and it's way of showing this raw emotion between the singer and their emotions as well as the emotions of the listener. When looking at Ratliff's example of Julia by the Beatles this song clearly expresses emotion. The lines of this song just sound empty, or lacking but when he sings ''Julia'' there is layers too it. Julia is clearly a women who holds great importance because she is the one who is causing all of this emotion to be released within the song. And it is not that there is an outpour of his soul into this song, it is through the lack thereof that you understand the deep emotion that is rooted. A song that immediately came to mind as being a song that can transcend emotions is Jeff Buckley's ''Hallelujah''. The word hallelujah itself already holds a lot of power, but the way that Buckley sings these lines is powerful. This song reminds me of my mother as most music does and so It does make me emotional, but Jeff Buckley seems to be taken over by these words as well, but who knows what this song means to him. You can hear his longing and the disdain in his voice and as the song progresses there is building of tension. You can hear it in the way he says "hallelujah". He begins soft and gets louder and louder and the way he says it gets more erratic each time. Until it comes to the very end and he holds out that last "hallelujah" until there is nothing left in him. There are many elements that prove that this song provokes much emotion in not only Buckley but the audience as well. ]]> 2017-10-09 15:52:06 UTC https://padlet.com/emilysanchez4/9iwp1r9mk9kp/wish/195282913 emilysanchez4 https://padlet.com/emilysanchez4/9iwp1r9mk9kp/wish/195334958 This is the song I analyzed with the idea of transmission. ]]> 2017-10-09 18:02:05 UTC https://padlet.com/emilysanchez4/9iwp1r9mk9kp/wish/195334958 emilysanchez4 https://padlet.com/emilysanchez4/9iwp1r9mk9kp/wish/195335776 This is a video of Stevie Nicks singing one of my most favorite songs and this video just exemplifies the idea of transmission and the emotions that a song can hold. There are so many aspects as to why this means so much to me and as to why I cry after every time I watch this video. It's a mixture of how this song relates to myself and my mom as well as her voice, the pauses, the way Lindsey looks at her at the end, and the context behind the song. Overall this really shows how powerful emotion in music is. 
Source: Youtube ]]> 2017-10-09 18:03:54 UTC https://padlet.com/emilysanchez4/9iwp1r9mk9kp/wish/195335776 emilysanchez4 https://padlet.com/emilysanchez4/9iwp1r9mk9kp/wish/195341139 "'The sublime"' as an animating force in great music -- originating in feelings, in spirits, in peiole and history"
-Ben Ratliff
Every Song Ever (pp. 50)]]> 2017-10-09 18:17:14 UTC https://padlet.com/emilysanchez4/9iwp1r9mk9kp/wish/195341139 emilysanchez4 https://padlet.com/emilysanchez4/9iwp1r9mk9kp/wish/195342418 "When they sing it's as if they're ventriloquists, with some clear distinction between themselves and those factors"
-Ben Ratliff
Every Song Ever (pp.49)]]> 2017-10-09 18:20:21 UTC https://padlet.com/emilysanchez4/9iwp1r9mk9kp/wish/195342418 emilysanchez4 https://padlet.com/emilysanchez4/9iwp1r9mk9kp/wish/195345040 This album here is titled "Sigh No More" by Mumford and Sons and is one of my most favorite albums ever. It holds significance in my life because of the time it came out and what was happening in my life at that time. But Ratliff says that "We need to attach emotional descriptions to music in order to contain it, fix it, tag it, draw it's boundaries, know what use it has and remember hoe to find it"(Ratliff 54). These actions are present in my life with this album. Marcus Mumford sings with this passion and this sadness in his voice. The album all the way through is exceptional and I would recommend it to all. There is a lot of power in the instrumentation as well his vocals and lyrics. ]]> 2017-10-09 18:26:53 UTC https://padlet.com/emilysanchez4/9iwp1r9mk9kp/wish/195345040 emilysanchez4 https://padlet.com/emilysanchez4/9iwp1r9mk9kp/wish/195350739 This album hold one of the most powerful forms of transmission in music. "The Show Must Go On" by Queen is such an intense song sung by one of the best vocalists known to our generation. When the song was written the band knew Freddie was already very sick and were fearful that he would not even be able to perform the song, yet he does it beautifully in the most strongest way possible. This song holds so much emotion for Freddie himself, as well as the band and the legacy that they still hold today. ]]> 2017-10-09 18:43:32 UTC https://padlet.com/emilysanchez4/9iwp1r9mk9kp/wish/195350739