Here it is! The poem that will be the basis for our piece of music! The title will either be Our Words, Our Music, Our Voices or Our Music, Our Voices. On the recommendation of a few choir members today I added "it is yours, it is ours" to the end of the poem. The members of the Concert Choir I spoke to felt it more accurately represented them and what was expressed in the questionnaire answers. Please continue to share your thoughts with me! This is your piece and the more you tell me and each other the more it will be an expression of you.
Music makes my heart swell up with joy.
It makes me smile,
laugh,
cry,
scream,
it always makes me feel something.
It is the cause of virtually all the stress in my life;
it is also the cure.
It will always be there to forgive.
It gives me a voice,
a power,
a strength.
It is the language of the human soul,
it is mine,
it is yours,
it is ours.
Monday, March 30, 2009
Friday, March 20, 2009
Musical Secrets Cards
The following Secrets were submitted written on the cards without visuals. If Secrets that include some non-writing element come in I will post them as photos. Until then I'll post them here.
Music makes me happy, but it also makes me scream with frustration. It is a wonderful thing, but so very confusing and frustrating - to the point that somedays I have no idea why I am here.
Not only did I play in the wrong key, but also the wrong clef.
Music makes me happy, but it also makes me scream with frustration. It is a wonderful thing, but so very confusing and frustrating - to the point that somedays I have no idea why I am here.
Not only did I play in the wrong key, but also the wrong clef.
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Questionnaire Responses: Question 5
What question would you like to be asked? What would your answer be?
What do you want to do with music?.... I want to share music with all those who are willing to listen. Music touches people in a way other mediums cannot. Music is a universal language, it can communicate across cultures. Music provides healing and enjoyment for all who participate in it.
Does being a musician get easier? I don't know, but I don't think that would change anything for me anyway.
Do egos help the group or do they hurt the groups chances for development? They hurt the group, egos feed inhibitions. Everyone needs to be on the same page if we are going to work together.
Q:Would you like your degree right now, so you can just go travel? A: yes. please.
...
I would like to be asked, why does music matter? It's a huge question to answer that I really don't think I can fully at all. I think that in a world so full of chaos and monstrous acts, the arts need to be present as the one thing that can bring everyone together. In recent years, both Live 8 and Live Earth were formed to bring large groups of people together to raise awareness for serious global issues. Do you think that the masses would have turned out to hear speakers or look at statistical evidence? Of course not. Music brings people together. It always has, and it always will as long as we continue to recognize its dire importance in today's society.
Do you feel that Laurier is offering you enough to express your full potential? No.
I would for someone to ask me the best place to make music. The answer is a park. A park where the sun is shining and kids are playing and people are laughing.
What do I see myself doing with music after university? I don't know, but as long as one aspect of my life includes music, I will be happy with that.
I have more questions to ask rather than be asked.. But what would the point be? Our school has more politics, way too much. There are many questions, but none of them would ask us. Will the music world always be like this? Since when did someone own music? Music is for everyone... and for the one creating it. Sigh....
What frustrates me about music? -Individual centralization -The misinterpretations of subtle nuances
If you could go back and restart University what would you do differently? I would be far less timid about my opinions, and not let teachers push me around, because of certain life circumstances. I would also be less lazy.
"Do you think you are talented?" Yes and no. Talent sometimes is unique skill, and I have that. Talent is also discipline and technique, and I don't have that.
Does being a musician constitute selfishness or selflessness? Both. If you don't do it for yourself, then you will never connect with people. If they cannot recognize your intimate relationship between art and emotion, it ceases to be music. But, if you aren't giving up everything to your music, you aren't being true to your relationship. Is love for another selfish or selfless? Both.
Not sure...
why are music students always a little different from everyone esle and lack the barriers of age more so then other majors? and i would say it is because we all make music together and in one way or another share our emotions with each other and age doesn't matter, nor does class size.
How do you feel when you make music? I feel that I am able to shut the world out and fold into my instrument and the music that we are making
What inspires your music? Knowing that I am able to express myself through it, it can be therapy, i can express everyone emotion I feel through it. Music understands me in times when I dont.
them: are you passionate about what you are doing? me: i sometimes wonder.
What do you want to do with music?.... I want to share music with all those who are willing to listen. Music touches people in a way other mediums cannot. Music is a universal language, it can communicate across cultures. Music provides healing and enjoyment for all who participate in it.
Does being a musician get easier? I don't know, but I don't think that would change anything for me anyway.
Do egos help the group or do they hurt the groups chances for development? They hurt the group, egos feed inhibitions. Everyone needs to be on the same page if we are going to work together.
Q:Would you like your degree right now, so you can just go travel? A: yes. please.
...
I would like to be asked, why does music matter? It's a huge question to answer that I really don't think I can fully at all. I think that in a world so full of chaos and monstrous acts, the arts need to be present as the one thing that can bring everyone together. In recent years, both Live 8 and Live Earth were formed to bring large groups of people together to raise awareness for serious global issues. Do you think that the masses would have turned out to hear speakers or look at statistical evidence? Of course not. Music brings people together. It always has, and it always will as long as we continue to recognize its dire importance in today's society.
Do you feel that Laurier is offering you enough to express your full potential? No.
I would for someone to ask me the best place to make music. The answer is a park. A park where the sun is shining and kids are playing and people are laughing.
What do I see myself doing with music after university? I don't know, but as long as one aspect of my life includes music, I will be happy with that.
I have more questions to ask rather than be asked.. But what would the point be? Our school has more politics, way too much. There are many questions, but none of them would ask us. Will the music world always be like this? Since when did someone own music? Music is for everyone... and for the one creating it. Sigh....
What frustrates me about music? -Individual centralization -The misinterpretations of subtle nuances
If you could go back and restart University what would you do differently? I would be far less timid about my opinions, and not let teachers push me around, because of certain life circumstances. I would also be less lazy.
"Do you think you are talented?" Yes and no. Talent sometimes is unique skill, and I have that. Talent is also discipline and technique, and I don't have that.
Does being a musician constitute selfishness or selflessness? Both. If you don't do it for yourself, then you will never connect with people. If they cannot recognize your intimate relationship between art and emotion, it ceases to be music. But, if you aren't giving up everything to your music, you aren't being true to your relationship. Is love for another selfish or selfless? Both.
Not sure...
why are music students always a little different from everyone esle and lack the barriers of age more so then other majors? and i would say it is because we all make music together and in one way or another share our emotions with each other and age doesn't matter, nor does class size.
How do you feel when you make music? I feel that I am able to shut the world out and fold into my instrument and the music that we are making
What inspires your music? Knowing that I am able to express myself through it, it can be therapy, i can express everyone emotion I feel through it. Music understands me in times when I dont.
them: are you passionate about what you are doing? me: i sometimes wonder.
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Questionnaire Responses: Question 4
Who does the music you make belong to? Does it belong to you or to somebody else?
my music is not a tangible thing that one can posses.... it neither belongs to me or to anyone. music just is.
The music I make can belong to me, or it can belong to someone else, it depends on the situation. Certain songs, or times when I'm alone it belongs to me. If I'm performing it belongs to a combination of the audience and myself.
Music belongs to the one who created it. For me, that means my Creator.
The music I make belongs to me, I'm just sharing when I perform
Music belongs to the creator, and it belongs to everybody who hears it, and remembers it, and is impacted by it.
Music belongs to any who cares to listen, no - not listen. who cares to feel - but not just feel. To internalize, to experience, to commit themselves wholly to whatever they are hearing, if only for a split second - to be oblivious of their surroundings. It belongs to those who allow themselves to be submergered, surrounded, drowned in the euphoria that is music.
I've never thought about this before. It belongs to me and then belongs to the listener. It first belongs to me because without me, that particular performance wouldn't exist.
always for me. helps me clear my head and think properly.
Someone told me once that a musician is like a waiter bringing a fine meal to a table; the waiter is not there to receive any credit, he is there to make sure that the meal gets from the chef to the patron intact. Musicians sometimes think we are more important than we are. We are ultimately there to serve the music, and sometimes thinking that it is "ours" gets in the way of the music itself. However the chef doesn't own the meal any more than the waiter or the patron; it may be his/her creation, but it has no real value unless it is experienced by someone, and so to think of it as a possession at all doesn't seem to apply.
The music I make belongs to anyone who is willing to hear it, and for whom it sticks with just a little. A piece doesn't need to be your favourite work, constantly playing on your iPod. The power of music lies in the fact that, for me anyways, in every event and moment in my life, I can remember a song that seems to accompany it. So I would say that my music belongs to anyone who, at some point in their life, remembers that one little song and smiles at how it relates to what is happening at that moment.
My music belongs to me, but the music that I make for school purposes sometimes belongs to someone else.
The music I make belongs to anyone who hears it, but it does not belong to me. I feel the music as I am making it but loose it right away. It doesn't exist to me after I finish singing, but it stays with those who heard it.
My music belongs to the one that I love. It has since I first fell for her. Every song is for her.
My music belongs to anybody who hears it. Restrictions of copyright and ticket-costs for concerts are ridiculous necessities that hold back the true possibilities of art in general, and music in particular.
My music belongs to God. Everything I am and do, I give to Him. After all, where does inspiration come from?
Everyone. Music is shared, as soon as sound emits in performance, the music is no longer yours.
It always belongs to me, because I make it, but it is sometimes FOR other people.
It belongs to me. Anyone who listens to my music is listening, and learning all about me.
Now it definitely belongs to me. It used to belong to my teacher. I always had to please him/her, and never myself. Even at my own graduation recital. I didn't make the music that I wanted to make. I didn't get to show my audience members who I was. Now I perform as ME!
The music I make belongs to me, the music you hear belongs to you. They are not mutually exclusive.
Music belongs to the people that listen to it. It never means to you what it means to me. I only own what I take from it, because no one can take that from me. I'm just glad other people can have it to themselves as well.
Does it have to belong to someone? Maybe the music is just there and everyone depends on it, like the air we breath. ...I am such a hopeless romantic.
the music is first theirs, and until they adopt me. still, there is always that feeling of adopted-doubt; what is my real mother like? do i have siblings? what would i have been like, if...?
My music has always come solely from me and only me. It belongs to me, so that I can share it. It has always been the most personal thing in my life. Afterall, the best part of your playing is you. ;)
The music I make belongs to everyone who cares to listen to it. Music's for sharing!
The music I make belongs to other composers, I am not a composer and would much rather try to recreate the beautiful things I hear.
Partially to the composer, but partially to the performer(s), (whether I make it alone or as part of a group and then we would have collective ownership, because the musical decisions were made as a group)
Music belongs to everyone, no matter who's name is one it, if you hear it apart of it becomes yours even when you don't notice it, and its realizing what is happening that can alter your perspective and sometimes your life style and patterns.
My music often belongs to my studio teacher, as i create and shape it in order to satisfy and impress his/her desires. My music can belong to my friends, when we collaborate in musical experiences through accompanying, duets, or ensembles. My music can belong to myself, in those moments that i play for my own pleasure and joy, with disregard to the wishes and desires of anyone else. these moments i feel the most freedom, but also the most uncertain about who i am and what my music is trying to say, as I am unaccustomed to hearing only my own musical voice.
my music is not a tangible thing that one can posses.... it neither belongs to me or to anyone. music just is.
The music I make can belong to me, or it can belong to someone else, it depends on the situation. Certain songs, or times when I'm alone it belongs to me. If I'm performing it belongs to a combination of the audience and myself.
Music belongs to the one who created it. For me, that means my Creator.
The music I make belongs to me, I'm just sharing when I perform
Music belongs to the creator, and it belongs to everybody who hears it, and remembers it, and is impacted by it.
Music belongs to any who cares to listen, no - not listen. who cares to feel - but not just feel. To internalize, to experience, to commit themselves wholly to whatever they are hearing, if only for a split second - to be oblivious of their surroundings. It belongs to those who allow themselves to be submergered, surrounded, drowned in the euphoria that is music.
I've never thought about this before. It belongs to me and then belongs to the listener. It first belongs to me because without me, that particular performance wouldn't exist.
always for me. helps me clear my head and think properly.
Someone told me once that a musician is like a waiter bringing a fine meal to a table; the waiter is not there to receive any credit, he is there to make sure that the meal gets from the chef to the patron intact. Musicians sometimes think we are more important than we are. We are ultimately there to serve the music, and sometimes thinking that it is "ours" gets in the way of the music itself. However the chef doesn't own the meal any more than the waiter or the patron; it may be his/her creation, but it has no real value unless it is experienced by someone, and so to think of it as a possession at all doesn't seem to apply.
The music I make belongs to anyone who is willing to hear it, and for whom it sticks with just a little. A piece doesn't need to be your favourite work, constantly playing on your iPod. The power of music lies in the fact that, for me anyways, in every event and moment in my life, I can remember a song that seems to accompany it. So I would say that my music belongs to anyone who, at some point in their life, remembers that one little song and smiles at how it relates to what is happening at that moment.
My music belongs to me, but the music that I make for school purposes sometimes belongs to someone else.
The music I make belongs to anyone who hears it, but it does not belong to me. I feel the music as I am making it but loose it right away. It doesn't exist to me after I finish singing, but it stays with those who heard it.
My music belongs to the one that I love. It has since I first fell for her. Every song is for her.
My music belongs to anybody who hears it. Restrictions of copyright and ticket-costs for concerts are ridiculous necessities that hold back the true possibilities of art in general, and music in particular.
My music belongs to God. Everything I am and do, I give to Him. After all, where does inspiration come from?
Everyone. Music is shared, as soon as sound emits in performance, the music is no longer yours.
It always belongs to me, because I make it, but it is sometimes FOR other people.
It belongs to me. Anyone who listens to my music is listening, and learning all about me.
Now it definitely belongs to me. It used to belong to my teacher. I always had to please him/her, and never myself. Even at my own graduation recital. I didn't make the music that I wanted to make. I didn't get to show my audience members who I was. Now I perform as ME!
The music I make belongs to me, the music you hear belongs to you. They are not mutually exclusive.
Music belongs to the people that listen to it. It never means to you what it means to me. I only own what I take from it, because no one can take that from me. I'm just glad other people can have it to themselves as well.
Does it have to belong to someone? Maybe the music is just there and everyone depends on it, like the air we breath. ...I am such a hopeless romantic.
the music is first theirs, and until they adopt me. still, there is always that feeling of adopted-doubt; what is my real mother like? do i have siblings? what would i have been like, if...?
My music has always come solely from me and only me. It belongs to me, so that I can share it. It has always been the most personal thing in my life. Afterall, the best part of your playing is you. ;)
The music I make belongs to everyone who cares to listen to it. Music's for sharing!
The music I make belongs to other composers, I am not a composer and would much rather try to recreate the beautiful things I hear.
Partially to the composer, but partially to the performer(s), (whether I make it alone or as part of a group and then we would have collective ownership, because the musical decisions were made as a group)
Music belongs to everyone, no matter who's name is one it, if you hear it apart of it becomes yours even when you don't notice it, and its realizing what is happening that can alter your perspective and sometimes your life style and patterns.
My music often belongs to my studio teacher, as i create and shape it in order to satisfy and impress his/her desires. My music can belong to my friends, when we collaborate in musical experiences through accompanying, duets, or ensembles. My music can belong to myself, in those moments that i play for my own pleasure and joy, with disregard to the wishes and desires of anyone else. these moments i feel the most freedom, but also the most uncertain about who i am and what my music is trying to say, as I am unaccustomed to hearing only my own musical voice.
Questionnaire Responses: Question 3
Do you feel you have your own distinct musical voice? If so, how would you describe it?
Not yet, however I think I'm finding my own distinct musical voice. Its beginning to shape itself and grow. It will take years to create it, but the end product will be mine.
Everything I do is intimate and understated. I have never been very good at expressing anger or any such negative emotion, but if I did, it wouldn't be in an obvious, outward way. Sometimes being quiet or silent can speak volumes.
No, I like to make my voice blend when I sing in a group. Unless it's a really tasty part of the chord
My musical voice is distinct because my knowledge is unique. Every musician, no matter how similar, no matter where or how they learned their skill, has a distinct musical voice because their way of approaching music is different, and with that, their performance is separate from every other.
No I don't. But I feel that music gives me a voice. That might only make sense to me. c'est la vie.
If by voice you mean what goes on in the school, then no. I didn't even know... [edited] until that meeting about the budget.
Yes: honest and resonant. I can't lie when I sing.
In my musical voice I attempt to combine the best of things. I enjoy the creative aspects and aspire to make something completely new and my own.
My musical voice changes with every note I sing. Philosophies and theories, as much as I value them, are only useful insofar as they can be applied to experiential listening or performing. With every moment, a person has experienced something different from the moment before, and their conclusions about something will be different. Therefore, my musical voice - my particular style - is not consistent in my eyes.
It's hard to say yes. My own distinct voice isn't what I bring into my lessons. Music should be free, the way it was when we were babies. Now it's, "Stand straight, feet apart, head up, raise your cheek bones, open your mouth, smile on the inside, rounder vowels, breathe, oh and what does this piece mean?" ..... Can't we just sing what we feel, when we feel like it?
I defintely feel like I have my own distinct musical voice. It is vibrant and multi-faceted, it's confusing and hard to understand, it's joyful and filled with a thousand sorrows: it's the universe, it is a speck... it's mine.
I feel like I am discovering my own musical voice. It is my own, and it is distinct, but I don't know how to describe it yet. Its a lot like me though. As I discover myself I am able to discover more about my musical voice, and as I discover my musical voice I am able to discover more about myself.
Unique. I know what I want and I do my damndest to acheive it - regardless of whether my studio teacher, or anyone else for that matter likes it.
I have a distinct musical voice. It is usually shy, and doesn't like people to listen, unless it is sure they will not strike it down. Once my music feels safe, it feels free. It loves to run and skip, to dance and spin, to tumble and trip, to laugh. My musical voice loves to let go, to be outside, to be somewhere that echoes, to make someone smile.
I can't say that I'm some innovational, undiscovered new voice in the music world. However I feel that everyone's musical voice is their own, and distinct. It's not the melody you write, it's the emotion behind it. It's how you went about relating what you were feeling and put it into music, and I really don't think you can tell me that any two people felt the same thing at the same time, and composed the same thing.
i would like to think so.
Now that I am finished university, yes I do. I would describe my musicality as uniquely me, and if you don't like it, don't listen.
I think I have a distinct voice, but that it is contained and takes some looking to locate.
My musical voice may be unique, but only until someone hears that and takes it on themselves. Now I'm just a part of the fabric.
Yes, I believe my talent in music is to play passionately and intimately.
no; my voice is mimetic. i may think i want my own voice, but i love other people's voices too much. besides, can something be created out of nothing?
My musical voice comes straight from my heart. I dont have a hard time searching for it, it speaks louder then my words. When I play, i am truely showing who i am, a window to my soul.
My musical voice changes every single day. It is a combination of the voices of my colleagues, my teachers, and (sometimes) my own. And I like it like that.
My musical voice is distinct within the music faculty, but not in general. My tastes run to only certain pockets of art music and the majority of my listening falls to opera and musical theatre. I love when music truly tells a story. Because of this, I also play best when I'm telling a story with it. I like to think my music is full of emotion.
I wouldn't say I do as far as sound alone goes, but I think my musical voice and style are reflected in the projects that I choose to take on and how I approach them, compared to other people
I think that everyone hs their own musical voice, my own i would call a soft voice, for i tend to gravitate towards the prettier music, although I also enjoy the grit, but my musicl voice is on the softer side... like a summer bird.
My musical voice is unconscious, i do not consciously shape it or create it. Often it is shaped according to the desires of those around me, such as my studio teacher. I do feel that my music making is different than that of those around me, but I do not know why or how. I cannot describe it, as unlike personality traits, there are no easy words to characterize or label the qualities of my music. if i were to try, i could say that it is perhaps hesitant and unsteady at times, shallow and surface-ey. but it can also be full of clarity and insight, and deep understanding of the musical text.
Not yet, however I think I'm finding my own distinct musical voice. Its beginning to shape itself and grow. It will take years to create it, but the end product will be mine.
Everything I do is intimate and understated. I have never been very good at expressing anger or any such negative emotion, but if I did, it wouldn't be in an obvious, outward way. Sometimes being quiet or silent can speak volumes.
No, I like to make my voice blend when I sing in a group. Unless it's a really tasty part of the chord
My musical voice is distinct because my knowledge is unique. Every musician, no matter how similar, no matter where or how they learned their skill, has a distinct musical voice because their way of approaching music is different, and with that, their performance is separate from every other.
No I don't. But I feel that music gives me a voice. That might only make sense to me. c'est la vie.
If by voice you mean what goes on in the school, then no. I didn't even know... [edited] until that meeting about the budget.
Yes: honest and resonant. I can't lie when I sing.
In my musical voice I attempt to combine the best of things. I enjoy the creative aspects and aspire to make something completely new and my own.
My musical voice changes with every note I sing. Philosophies and theories, as much as I value them, are only useful insofar as they can be applied to experiential listening or performing. With every moment, a person has experienced something different from the moment before, and their conclusions about something will be different. Therefore, my musical voice - my particular style - is not consistent in my eyes.
It's hard to say yes. My own distinct voice isn't what I bring into my lessons. Music should be free, the way it was when we were babies. Now it's, "Stand straight, feet apart, head up, raise your cheek bones, open your mouth, smile on the inside, rounder vowels, breathe, oh and what does this piece mean?" ..... Can't we just sing what we feel, when we feel like it?
I defintely feel like I have my own distinct musical voice. It is vibrant and multi-faceted, it's confusing and hard to understand, it's joyful and filled with a thousand sorrows: it's the universe, it is a speck... it's mine.
I feel like I am discovering my own musical voice. It is my own, and it is distinct, but I don't know how to describe it yet. Its a lot like me though. As I discover myself I am able to discover more about my musical voice, and as I discover my musical voice I am able to discover more about myself.
Unique. I know what I want and I do my damndest to acheive it - regardless of whether my studio teacher, or anyone else for that matter likes it.
I have a distinct musical voice. It is usually shy, and doesn't like people to listen, unless it is sure they will not strike it down. Once my music feels safe, it feels free. It loves to run and skip, to dance and spin, to tumble and trip, to laugh. My musical voice loves to let go, to be outside, to be somewhere that echoes, to make someone smile.
I can't say that I'm some innovational, undiscovered new voice in the music world. However I feel that everyone's musical voice is their own, and distinct. It's not the melody you write, it's the emotion behind it. It's how you went about relating what you were feeling and put it into music, and I really don't think you can tell me that any two people felt the same thing at the same time, and composed the same thing.
i would like to think so.
Now that I am finished university, yes I do. I would describe my musicality as uniquely me, and if you don't like it, don't listen.
I think I have a distinct voice, but that it is contained and takes some looking to locate.
My musical voice may be unique, but only until someone hears that and takes it on themselves. Now I'm just a part of the fabric.
Yes, I believe my talent in music is to play passionately and intimately.
no; my voice is mimetic. i may think i want my own voice, but i love other people's voices too much. besides, can something be created out of nothing?
My musical voice comes straight from my heart. I dont have a hard time searching for it, it speaks louder then my words. When I play, i am truely showing who i am, a window to my soul.
My musical voice changes every single day. It is a combination of the voices of my colleagues, my teachers, and (sometimes) my own. And I like it like that.
My musical voice is distinct within the music faculty, but not in general. My tastes run to only certain pockets of art music and the majority of my listening falls to opera and musical theatre. I love when music truly tells a story. Because of this, I also play best when I'm telling a story with it. I like to think my music is full of emotion.
I wouldn't say I do as far as sound alone goes, but I think my musical voice and style are reflected in the projects that I choose to take on and how I approach them, compared to other people
I think that everyone hs their own musical voice, my own i would call a soft voice, for i tend to gravitate towards the prettier music, although I also enjoy the grit, but my musicl voice is on the softer side... like a summer bird.
My musical voice is unconscious, i do not consciously shape it or create it. Often it is shaped according to the desires of those around me, such as my studio teacher. I do feel that my music making is different than that of those around me, but I do not know why or how. I cannot describe it, as unlike personality traits, there are no easy words to characterize or label the qualities of my music. if i were to try, i could say that it is perhaps hesitant and unsteady at times, shallow and surface-ey. but it can also be full of clarity and insight, and deep understanding of the musical text.
Questionnaire Responses: Question 2
Has your relationship with music changed since you became a music student at university? If so, how?
Well I'm technically not a "music student" in the sence that I am not regestered with the music faculty, but i still consider myself to be a student of music. Music guides me and helps me to learn about myself, other poeple, and the world. I guess that since I came to university, i finally realized that music is a teacher. So if music is a teacher, the i am a student of music.
Yes, university has brought me a greater respect for music. It has renewed my interest in an art that is constantly changing. There is always something new and exciting in music.
It's become more personal and related to experience. But I've also matured in that I don't immediately go to music when I need an escape or an outlet. I appreciate it much more when it isn't altered by the meaning I attach to it.
University forced me to increase my level performance and professionalism, but my relation ship has not changed
Yes, it has. In high school, different teachers had different opinions, but the commonality was technique, and sticking to the "proper" way of performing. At university, it's much more about the sound created, and letting the perfectionism fall a bit. And I'm not a music major.
Music has become more of a duty, an obligation. It has become the sole bringer of stress. Which makes me laugh - because, what is music therapy?
i appreciate it less because of the amount of theory and studying we do. it was better raw.
Oddly not really. I thought when all my time became devoted to music that some deeper connection would form but it hasn't. I guess the connection was already pretty deep. What has changed is my relationship with musicians. Being around so many people that share the same love for such a beautiful art form every day is exhilarating. I don't think any other program has such a sense of community and mutual passion. It's amazing to be a part of it.
I felt that university tried to take my music away from me. There were days when I came home and felt like the school was trying to take away a part of me. It took me what felt like a long time to realize just how hard I would have to hold on to my music if I wanted to study it here. My relationship with music often feels like a secret. The times when I break the rules of what kind of musician I am expected to be are the times when my music feels most real and sounds most beautiful.
Yes: I need it more and more, but fight with it all the time. I'm scared to admit how important it has become to me.
Yes. I feel the emotions in it stronger now. Every song is a story that I am not just telling- I am experiencing it every time.
I am troubled by the artificial performing and listening that usually happens everywhere in this Faculty (even in myself). However, periodically I am astounded by the depth that can be found. My relationship with music used to be one way, but now I see that it must exist on a spectrum between the artificial and deep.
Yes. We're on a rollercoaster, music and I. Sometimes we're up and in love with each other. Other times, it's the last thing I want to be around, it becomes a chore.
My relationship has changed to appreciate the intricacies of music, understand various points of view on music, and to simply enjoy what I'm hearing and performing.
I have come to a greater appreciation of music since coming to university. I loved music before, but now I understand it a bit more, and a lot less at the same time.
Yes, I went from "being good at it" to hating every second of it, to loving it again. Now, I can't see myself not having it in my life everyday. When I don't play, I feel lost.
Yes, both in good ways and bad. Good: Getting advice and criticism on how I play my instrument helps me become a better musician. Bad: Having to sit through useless classes... and learn things that I will never remember once the course is finished.
Yes. Sometimes I *think* I want to quit and go into office work.
I discovered that music is more about creation and destruction than about interpretation.
If it hasn't, then you don't know music very well. Today it is this, but tomorrow it will be that. A relationship with music grows together or apart like people do. If it doesn't, is your music really alive?
Yes. I have grown to love it more and have rediscovered my ambition for music. I also definitely take it more seriously now than I did before.
someone turned up the dial on the interaction, but the relationship has stayed the same.
Yes. It became something i did instead of being a part of who i am. I found the relationship between the music i made with my instrument and what i was learning in my academic courses very disconnected. Music became a complicated matter, an academic venture. I felt as if everything I was trying to convey with my music was overshadowed by the things i was being taught that I struggled to find meaning in.
Playing now causes me pain. I persevere anyway, but the aching in my body makes it hard sometimes. I wish it would stop so that I could just play. When talking to people other than musicians, I find that I no longer have anything to say. My outlook on life is 100% determined by how well my lesson goes each week. Music is the cause of virtually all of the stress in my life; it is also the cure.
When I was in elementary and secondary school, I was always the best at music. It was the only thing I was ever 'the best' at, so that made it cool. I also realized I love to perform in front of people. It only took the grade 8 musical to realize that. Coming to university I became the lowest of the low in this music world and my relationship with music became one of battling to conquer it. I was determined not to fail or give up, like so many of my peers. I think I still am very passionate about music, but as they always say, when it's your work, it's never fun in the same way anymore.
Yes, I have become much more connected to it, it is more necessary to me and I have a deeper appreciation and gratitude for being involved with it
It has intensifies for i now hear it but i also understand its structure, as well as being as submerged as i have been i have been awakened to an even wider spectrum.
yes, to a certain degree. I have a greater understanding of music, and music plays a much larger role in my life on a day-to-day basis. I experience stronger feelings towards music, both positive and negative. These feelings that music provokes include happiness, joy, satisfaction, and contentment, but also (and perhaps more frequently) frustration, incompetency, uncertainty, anxiety, and sadness. I also play less frequently for my own pleasure and joy, for after I have completed my required music-making, i have little energy for anything else.
Well I'm technically not a "music student" in the sence that I am not regestered with the music faculty, but i still consider myself to be a student of music. Music guides me and helps me to learn about myself, other poeple, and the world. I guess that since I came to university, i finally realized that music is a teacher. So if music is a teacher, the i am a student of music.
Yes, university has brought me a greater respect for music. It has renewed my interest in an art that is constantly changing. There is always something new and exciting in music.
It's become more personal and related to experience. But I've also matured in that I don't immediately go to music when I need an escape or an outlet. I appreciate it much more when it isn't altered by the meaning I attach to it.
University forced me to increase my level performance and professionalism, but my relation ship has not changed
Yes, it has. In high school, different teachers had different opinions, but the commonality was technique, and sticking to the "proper" way of performing. At university, it's much more about the sound created, and letting the perfectionism fall a bit. And I'm not a music major.
Music has become more of a duty, an obligation. It has become the sole bringer of stress. Which makes me laugh - because, what is music therapy?
i appreciate it less because of the amount of theory and studying we do. it was better raw.
Oddly not really. I thought when all my time became devoted to music that some deeper connection would form but it hasn't. I guess the connection was already pretty deep. What has changed is my relationship with musicians. Being around so many people that share the same love for such a beautiful art form every day is exhilarating. I don't think any other program has such a sense of community and mutual passion. It's amazing to be a part of it.
I felt that university tried to take my music away from me. There were days when I came home and felt like the school was trying to take away a part of me. It took me what felt like a long time to realize just how hard I would have to hold on to my music if I wanted to study it here. My relationship with music often feels like a secret. The times when I break the rules of what kind of musician I am expected to be are the times when my music feels most real and sounds most beautiful.
Yes: I need it more and more, but fight with it all the time. I'm scared to admit how important it has become to me.
Yes. I feel the emotions in it stronger now. Every song is a story that I am not just telling- I am experiencing it every time.
I am troubled by the artificial performing and listening that usually happens everywhere in this Faculty (even in myself). However, periodically I am astounded by the depth that can be found. My relationship with music used to be one way, but now I see that it must exist on a spectrum between the artificial and deep.
Yes. We're on a rollercoaster, music and I. Sometimes we're up and in love with each other. Other times, it's the last thing I want to be around, it becomes a chore.
My relationship has changed to appreciate the intricacies of music, understand various points of view on music, and to simply enjoy what I'm hearing and performing.
I have come to a greater appreciation of music since coming to university. I loved music before, but now I understand it a bit more, and a lot less at the same time.
Yes, I went from "being good at it" to hating every second of it, to loving it again. Now, I can't see myself not having it in my life everyday. When I don't play, I feel lost.
Yes, both in good ways and bad. Good: Getting advice and criticism on how I play my instrument helps me become a better musician. Bad: Having to sit through useless classes... and learn things that I will never remember once the course is finished.
Yes. Sometimes I *think* I want to quit and go into office work.
I discovered that music is more about creation and destruction than about interpretation.
If it hasn't, then you don't know music very well. Today it is this, but tomorrow it will be that. A relationship with music grows together or apart like people do. If it doesn't, is your music really alive?
Yes. I have grown to love it more and have rediscovered my ambition for music. I also definitely take it more seriously now than I did before.
someone turned up the dial on the interaction, but the relationship has stayed the same.
Yes. It became something i did instead of being a part of who i am. I found the relationship between the music i made with my instrument and what i was learning in my academic courses very disconnected. Music became a complicated matter, an academic venture. I felt as if everything I was trying to convey with my music was overshadowed by the things i was being taught that I struggled to find meaning in.
Playing now causes me pain. I persevere anyway, but the aching in my body makes it hard sometimes. I wish it would stop so that I could just play. When talking to people other than musicians, I find that I no longer have anything to say. My outlook on life is 100% determined by how well my lesson goes each week. Music is the cause of virtually all of the stress in my life; it is also the cure.
When I was in elementary and secondary school, I was always the best at music. It was the only thing I was ever 'the best' at, so that made it cool. I also realized I love to perform in front of people. It only took the grade 8 musical to realize that. Coming to university I became the lowest of the low in this music world and my relationship with music became one of battling to conquer it. I was determined not to fail or give up, like so many of my peers. I think I still am very passionate about music, but as they always say, when it's your work, it's never fun in the same way anymore.
Yes, I have become much more connected to it, it is more necessary to me and I have a deeper appreciation and gratitude for being involved with it
It has intensifies for i now hear it but i also understand its structure, as well as being as submerged as i have been i have been awakened to an even wider spectrum.
yes, to a certain degree. I have a greater understanding of music, and music plays a much larger role in my life on a day-to-day basis. I experience stronger feelings towards music, both positive and negative. These feelings that music provokes include happiness, joy, satisfaction, and contentment, but also (and perhaps more frequently) frustration, incompetency, uncertainty, anxiety, and sadness. I also play less frequently for my own pleasure and joy, for after I have completed my required music-making, i have little energy for anything else.
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