It’s just rhythms and pitches really, in a sequence. But we don’t love patterns, a scale sounds boring. It’s the breaking of the patterns that sound good in music, but only in specific ways. Other ways sound discordant. What the duck is going on?

  • pwnicholson
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    107 days ago

    “Is it not strange that sheep’s guts should hail souls from mens’ bodies?” – Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing

    (Guitar/lute strings used to be made from sheep gut, for anyone confused)

      • pwnicholson
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        16 days ago

        It is in the context of a guy singing. The next line is something like “if it was a dog that had howled thus, he’d have shot him”