Nightjar wrote:

WhatDoesThisButtonDo? wrote:[A] 'melodic element' doesn't have chords*.

*explain

Fixed.

Chords are harmony, two or more notes played at the same time. Melody is a single line that changes through time one note at a time.

You can say dcBasehead only sings two notes, or dcBasehead only sings two notes over two chords.

Both of those would be correct. Grammatically.

Doesn't make them sound any better.

Didn't.

I didn't like the second album, more uptempo, but not as coherent for want of a better term, and I've not heard 'Faith' or 'In The Name Of Jesus'

Next I'll explain the nuanced difference and fluctuational interplay between Impressionism and Post-Impressionism.

Or that of Schopenhauer, Wagner and Nietzsche.

Or the tragic similarity between Liszt and Tchaikovsky.

Or whether the Gorillas should be called the Hammersmith Gorillas or The Gorillas or the Golliras or the Hammerstein Gozillars.

Or everything else.

Nightjar wrote:Next I'll explain the nuanced difference and fluctuational interplay between Impressionism and Post-Impressionism.

I'm sure that'll come in useful. Almost as much use as knowledge of the Acetylcholine receptor's subunits

Schopenhauer took 40,000 words to say what the intro of Monkey said in a 100 words.

You read that off a Christmas cracker motto.

Anyway, I never said the old misery guts was any good at 'think-abouting'.

I shall resume this round of petty intellectual sniping later on, but only on the condition that I might learn something (specifically about musical terminology).

Incidentally, for someone who has never, much to my regret, taken to playing a musical instrument (I was given a ukulele when I was 3 and proceeded to pull it physically to pieces), I know a great deal about the subject and can sing like a blinking nightingale (especially when I have an hangover), but I am a bit fuzzy - perhaps, dare I say, somewhat verbose and flowery - when it comes to my deployment of technical language.

For example:

1) Wendi's use of "middle eight" (is it the same as a bridge?).

2) Coda. Nobody else here seems to allude to it, but I'm sure I'm not wrong in using it in the way I do. From what I understand, it's a final and decisive movement of a piece of music, often somewhat unlike what came before, no?

e.g. Rick Wright's final synthesiser 'riff' on See Emily Play at the end of Wish You Were Here (parts MCMLXXXIX-MMDLMFAOVIII)...

PS - I bet you're one of those people who can't tell a Picasso and a Braque apart*.


*nobody can.

A middle eight is generally the same as a bridge.

A coda is the bit tacked onto the end of a song.

Nightjar wrote:PS - I bet you're one of those people who can't tell a Picasso and a Braque apart*.


*nobody can.

This is my fav. Braque: