The Magic of Music: Recent Episodes
Matt Spieker
This Miscellany No. 19 is titled the Deep Well of Harmony Part II. I want to detail and comment on Jacob Collier’s video about harmony. In this, he talks about harmony on five different levels spanning from a young child’s idea of what harmony is all the way to a discussion with Herbie Hancock.
This Miscellany No. 18 titled the Deep Well of Harmony Part I. I want to detail and comment on Jacob Collier’s video about harmony. In this, he talks about harmony on five different levels spanning from a young child’s idea of what harmony is all the way to a discussion with Herbie Hancock.
This is Miscellany number 16, The Voyager Project. A team of scientists were unable to define and describe humanity without the inclusion of music. If that is true, then why do some in society think our content area is an extra, or fluff? What you teach is vital to the very definition of humanity.
This is Miscellany No. 15, Zimmer and the Music of Dune, Part II. I will discuss several comments made during this video clip. Highlighted will be the creative aspects of not sounding like a European orchestra and that the wanted to write a film score as if he was 13 years old. Most importantly, I want to talk about the two aspects of music education of Aesthetic and Praxial. I believe this video expresses both camps beautifully.
This is Miscellany No. 14, Zimmer and the Music of Dune, Part I. I will discuss the first thought of Hans Zimmer on this video. Will society really progress beyond the need of a “regular beat” to enjoy music?
This is Miscellany No. 13, Brain Plasticity Through Music. Although music is valuable simply because it is, there is also value in how it changes our brain. Like magic, music will cause us to be better at a multitude of tasks and even social settings.
This is Miscellany No. 12, From Appreciation to Admiration. When we learn about how music is put together, and its specifics, we can magically move from an appreciation of the music to admiration of the art.
This Miscellany No. 11 and it details how music creates unique communities in a school.
This miscellany No. 10 describes the Reuben’s Tube. A device that visually shows standing waves.
This Miscellany No. 8 details that magical moment we have when music causes us to get chills. The technical term for this is frisson, but we call them goosebumps. The episode is titled Gäsehaut because I have another German story about this and this is their term for frisson.
Some argue that the value of music is in the doing of music. This has been called musicing and it is rooted in a philosophy called Praxialism. Imaging that, doing music is fun.
Music engages us in three domains, which are cognition, psychomotor, and affective. It is the only subject that easily allows us to be in all three at the same time.
Show Notes
Dr. Meredith Arksey
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yUa8-MEHwc
Good explanation about strings using sympathetic vibrations to improve intonation
Mechanical Metronomes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suQbK7AA5XI
Watch these mechanical metronomes synch with one another
Practical Engineering
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXTSnZgrfxM
Explains the Tacoma Narrows Bridge
Physics Girl
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oc27GxSD_bI
Demonstrates and discusses how the voice can break glass
Viola D’Amore Photo
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=viol+demore&atb=v241-1&iax=images&ia=images&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fvancikviolin.com%2Fwp-content%2Fgallery%2Fviola-damore%2FIMG_5166.JPG
Viola D’Amore Introduction by Rachel Barton Pine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1Qmmx7zoO8
Go to 18:00 mark to hear a performance on the instrument
Tuning the Hand with Physics and Feeling by Matthew H. Spieker
Spieker, M. H. (2022) Tuning the Hand with Physics and Feeling. American String Teacher. 72(1), 33-36.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00031313211065511?icid=int.sj-abstract.citing-articles.1
Harmony can change your disposition and that is magical.
Contact me at themagicofmusicms@gmail.com
Post your favorite memes about music on the Facebook page, which is also, The Magic of Music
Part of Pentatonix’s YouTube video of Amazing Grace, My Chains are Gone is used in this miscellany. Listen to the entire video, it is mind blowing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Obp-9BEZe1c
This miscellany demonstrates how rhythm is real magic.
Queen, We Will Rock You
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tJYN-eG1zk
Melody is memorable and this is partly why it is magical.
Bobby McFerrin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-diB65scQU
Fifty Nifty https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uv5VhuUfwC4
Sundance Film Festival Featurette https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HLEr-zP3fc
This is the inaugural podcast of the Magic of Music. I introduce who I am, how I came up with the podcast name, and why I am doing this project.