Let's talk music, no genre boundaries


This is an offshoot of the jazz thread. I and others found that we could not talk about jazz without discussing other musical genres, as well as the philosophy of music. So, this is a thread in which people can suggest good music of all genres, and spout off your feelings about music itself.

 

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I dont think that A.I. could play as Maria Yudina the woman Stalin could not kill even when she refused his money answering that she will pray for his sins in his face :

No other pianist play Schubert so fiercely and with freedom   as if she danced with Schubert heart...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8V964wP1Pw&list=RDg8V964wP1Pw&start_radio=1

 

A documentary about this woman, a legend among Russian musicians :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zF03KVIsrns

Humans began making music to mimic the sounds in their environments. We are habituated to respond physically to sound. For some, this produces dopamine when James Brown is on stage. Meh. Garbage in, garbage out, yadda yadda. 

Everybody's best guess. I've spent many years doing research to shape mine, but it's no more true than anyone else's. No observers wrote down anything about upper Paleolithic people.Best we know about music, I think, is the horn flute that is 43,000 years old and the supposition that other musical instruments deteriorated over time. My answer works for me and what I'm writing. But I'm writing fiction.

David Byrne's How Music Works is a fascinating read concerning how music is appreciated by audiences, among other digressions.