I confess that I have not earned any degree from Trinity in music but that in no way is something which can legitimately hold me back when it comes to appreciating and talking about life in general and music in particular.
Before we officially launch into the realm of Rock music and start dissecting each and every form it is desirable to get a bird's eye view of the whole concept of music and it's antecedents.
My brain which is fond of instinctive speculation takes me away to the first century of civilization when Human intellect for the first time identified itself. Prior to this our intelligence had an unnoticed existence. By recognizing it's existence we validated it's purpose.
Music, brethren, is an intelligent form of human behaviour( although headbanging may seem to refute this claim)
The ability to identify musical patterns, appreciate them, compose them, perform and lastly enjoy them requires great proportions of sagacity and intellect. But what makes music such a delectable human activity is the fact that unlike other scientific pursuits music can be audaciously experimented with.
A tribesman who derived pleasure by playing on a piece of wood is as great a musician as Mozart in his hey days.
Music is a term so generous that it envisages almost every artistic amusement involving humming and swaying as music short of noise and rioting.
To fully appreciate music two things are necessary: Temperament and Temperance.
By temperament we mean looking upon music for it's own sake. By temperance we mean uncommon secularism when it comes to critically analysing art.
Any art to be fully appreciated requires that the person appreciating it divorces himself from preconceived prejudices, morality and biases.
Unless this is done no art can be properly understood.
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