https://padlet.com/rolbrown99/i4gztdbr0atf Book Review en-us 2017-12-04 00:49:53 UTC 2017-12-04 01:53:03 UTC hello@padlet.com rolbrown99 https://padlet.com/rolbrown99/i4gztdbr0atf/wish/212680029 Every Song Ever by Ben Ratliff is a very interesting choice or a textbook. It is not the typical textbook with straight forward definitions and pictures of diagrams, but instead it is book that not only tells you what to listen to but, more importantly, how to listen to it. Ratliff's whole reasoning of this book was to prove how the more music becomes more accessible to us the way we listen music has changed. Ratliff uses terms to describe his categories that seem obvious in meaning. He discusses virtuosity, loudness, quiet and repetition. In every case he expands upon these definitions to include new ways of hearing these qualities. He talks about the idea of perceived physical space in music, as well as what he calls closeness. Ratliff's book can be hard to understand at times. It makes you think because the answers and definitions are not printed in bold as they would be in other textbooks. It is a great book for someone who loves and understands music already. But for someone who has no music background it is really hard to understand. Personally I would rather it be a reference book rather than the primary text. But even though I did not quite grasp every element, the ones that I understood I really enjoyed reading about.]]> 2017-12-04 00:52:42 UTC https://padlet.com/rolbrown99/i4gztdbr0atf/wish/212680029 rolbrown99 https://padlet.com/rolbrown99/i4gztdbr0atf/wish/212686226 2017-12-04 01:33:39 UTC https://padlet.com/rolbrown99/i4gztdbr0atf/wish/212686226 rolbrown99 https://padlet.com/rolbrown99/i4gztdbr0atf/wish/212687492 2017-12-04 01:42:47 UTC https://padlet.com/rolbrown99/i4gztdbr0atf/wish/212687492 rolbrown99 https://padlet.com/rolbrown99/i4gztdbr0atf/wish/212688211 2017-12-04 01:49:09 UTC https://padlet.com/rolbrown99/i4gztdbr0atf/wish/212688211 rolbrown99 https://padlet.com/rolbrown99/i4gztdbr0atf/wish/212688492 “Speed in music is like a sweater on a dog: mostly for show.” 
-Ben Ratliff ]]> 2017-12-04 01:51:43 UTC https://padlet.com/rolbrown99/i4gztdbr0atf/wish/212688492 rolbrown99 https://padlet.com/rolbrown99/i4gztdbr0atf/wish/212688571 “We think of pieces of music from a distance as blocks of time, but can we hold more than a second or two in our minds? And are we—with all music, to some extent—waiting around for some pinpointed extraordinariness to happen? Not”
-Ben Ratliff ]]> 2017-12-04 01:52:36 UTC https://padlet.com/rolbrown99/i4gztdbr0atf/wish/212688571