https://padlet.com/colten_gibson/k8wwf2limdpy Week 6 en-us 2017-10-07 23:14:13 UTC 2025-11-13 05:36:14 UTC hello@padlet.com colten_gibson https://padlet.com/colten_gibson/k8wwf2limdpy/wish/194948655 In this Padlet exploration I will discuss (Ratliff, Ch.1) concept of repetition. Ratliff argues that repetition is the inverse of variation, but without the other, neither would succeed. I agree with him on this, especially after listening to "Ain't it Funky Now - James Brown". ]]> 2017-10-07 23:45:42 UTC https://padlet.com/colten_gibson/k8wwf2limdpy/wish/194948655 colten_gibson https://padlet.com/colten_gibson/k8wwf2limdpy/wish/194948842 "Repetition is a smart psychological operation---a way to make you focus on all that is in fact non repetitive" - (Ratliff, 2016)]]> 2017-10-07 23:51:02 UTC https://padlet.com/colten_gibson/k8wwf2limdpy/wish/194948842 colten_gibson https://padlet.com/colten_gibson/k8wwf2limdpy/wish/194948948 Ratliff, B. (2016). Every song ever: twenty ways to listen in an age of musical plenty. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.]]> 2017-10-07 23:54:38 UTC https://padlet.com/colten_gibson/k8wwf2limdpy/wish/194948948 colten_gibson https://padlet.com/colten_gibson/k8wwf2limdpy/wish/194949001 "Music is a game between performers and audiences, a loop in which performers hold the upper hand, then audiences, then performers again" - (Ratliff, 2016)]]> 2017-10-07 23:55:58 UTC https://padlet.com/colten_gibson/k8wwf2limdpy/wish/194949001 colten_gibson https://padlet.com/colten_gibson/k8wwf2limdpy/wish/194949181 Repetition of main line, then addition of tweaks in tone of interjecting lines]]> 2017-10-07 23:59:36 UTC https://padlet.com/colten_gibson/k8wwf2limdpy/wish/194949181 colten_gibson https://padlet.com/colten_gibson/k8wwf2limdpy/wish/194949257 Another example of a repeating main line, that some how makes the variation outstanding]]> 2017-10-08 00:02:26 UTC https://padlet.com/colten_gibson/k8wwf2limdpy/wish/194949257 colten_gibson https://padlet.com/colten_gibson/k8wwf2limdpy/wish/194949346 Another example of repetition, this one however was interesting because the variation was increasing, shortening intervals, but when compared to the repeating main line it was difficult to tell if it was going back and forth]]> 2017-10-08 00:05:20 UTC https://padlet.com/colten_gibson/k8wwf2limdpy/wish/194949346 colten_gibson https://padlet.com/colten_gibson/k8wwf2limdpy/wish/194949481 Another example of repetition, but this one is interesting because the variation does not fit unless the repeating main line is there]]> 2017-10-08 00:10:20 UTC https://padlet.com/colten_gibson/k8wwf2limdpy/wish/194949481 colten_gibson https://padlet.com/colten_gibson/k8wwf2limdpy/wish/194949535 "Everything we tend to classify as "variation"---sonata form, symphony, jazz---includes repetition. And everything we tend to classify as "repetition"---minimalism, reggae, R&B, techno---includes variation" - (Ratliff, 2016)]]> 2017-10-08 00:12:10 UTC https://padlet.com/colten_gibson/k8wwf2limdpy/wish/194949535 colten_gibson https://padlet.com/colten_gibson/k8wwf2limdpy/wish/194955326 "When people start dancing, a kind of ownership ritual takes over. They've marked out their own physical space: it now belongs to them. Likewise, they've started to take ownership of the music they're hearing" - (Ratliff, 2016)]]> 2017-10-08 03:11:06 UTC https://padlet.com/colten_gibson/k8wwf2limdpy/wish/194955326