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Our brains appear uniquely tuned for musical pitch
medical xpress ^ | 10 June 2019 | National Institutes of Health

Posted on 06/10/2019 7:51:50 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT

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There is some music that tickles my brain.

Parts of Gershwin's "Rhapsody In Blue' and others just feel good!

Hearing impaired since RVN, and it still feels good.

1 posted on 06/10/2019 7:51:50 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
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George Gershwin - Rhapsody in Blue

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


2 posted on 06/10/2019 7:53:43 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT ("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT; TBP

Again, WTH kind of dumbgrunt are you?!?!

From what little I know, Gershwin was a genius.

Never heard of this before but while studying my racing form from TBP, I kept it on in the background.

Beautiful piece!

The things you learn on FR. Sometimes at the same time! :)


3 posted on 06/10/2019 8:08:29 PM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know if Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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I know that I'm biased, but the 15 minute banjo solo in Rhapsody In Blue is my favorite part.

Ummmmm...RIB isn't supposed to "make you feel good", though. The dissidence, rapidly played notes that are supposed to sound like "traffic", etc. are to set moods, thoughts, and yes, feeling though.

4 posted on 06/10/2019 8:14:18 PM PDT by nopardons
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The guy wrote it while riding a train (the 1920’s), and you can hear some of the sounds of a steam engine!!

WTH kind of dumbgrunt are you?!?!

Just a plain old Grunt, nothing out of the ordinary.
My wife could fill your ear!


5 posted on 06/10/2019 8:25:27 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT ("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message.)
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These Monkees were pretty well tuned to music, and had banjo


6 posted on 06/10/2019 8:28:02 PM PDT by bigbob
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They also found that our brains prefer the sound of screeching macaque monkeys than the sound of a Hillary Clinton speech.


7 posted on 06/10/2019 8:34:52 PM PDT by Bullish (My tagline ran off with another man.)
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Too bad they never actually played anything on that show.


8 posted on 06/10/2019 8:36:09 PM PDT by Bullish (My tagline ran off with another man.)
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The guy wrote it while riding a train (the 1920’s), and you can hear some of the sounds of a steam engine!!

Knowing that detracts because I tend to think about steam engines. Not simply listening to music...

Dave Brubeck’s Take Five is another.

If they could isolate the stimulating bits, it would be like a narcotic. Assuming that most humans have a similar response?


9 posted on 06/10/2019 8:36:38 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT ("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message.)
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Too late for George Allen...


10 posted on 06/10/2019 8:37:18 PM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...
Thanks DUMBGRUNT.
The Kiki Dee Band - I've Got The Music In Me

The Kiki Dee Band - I've Got The Music In Me

11 posted on 06/10/2019 8:40:51 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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Picturing the volunteers and the monkeys sitting next to each other with headphones on.


12 posted on 06/10/2019 8:46:17 PM PDT by Yardstick
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George wrote only a part of RIB on the train.

Steam engines are silent to passengers...it's the sound of the wheels.

I love Brubeck and especially TAKE FIVE, which I first heard when it came out, when I was in high school. I have that original album still.

13 posted on 06/10/2019 8:47:35 PM PDT by nopardons
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THis might explain why I was never able to play music, brain ain't wired right............

Now with my hearing shot, it is all just sounds, faint.

14 posted on 06/10/2019 8:50:50 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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My ex and I are tone deaf Our son has natural ear and plays every instrument in a band and sings. Must have been a tenor in the wood pile.


15 posted on 06/10/2019 8:52:09 PM PDT by morphing libertarian ( Use Comey's Report, Indict Hillary now; build Kate's wall. --- Proud Smelly Walmart Deplorable)
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I love that opus, especially the versions recorded by Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra in which Gershwin himself plays the piano.


16 posted on 06/10/2019 8:53:55 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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“There is some music that tickles my brain.”

Just wait till you plod through a thread on A=432 vs A=440.


17 posted on 06/10/2019 8:55:08 PM PDT by bk1000 (I stand with Trump)
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One of my favorite tunes by one of my favorite groups:

Soft Lights & Sweet Music--Waring's Pennsylvanians (vocal by the Three Girl friends) (1932)

18 posted on 06/10/2019 8:57:39 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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Gene inhertence is a crapshoot.

Do you and your wife know your family histories? If so was ANYONE musically inclined/talented, in past generations? More often than not, different talents/predispositions jump a generation or two or more.

19 posted on 06/10/2019 8:59:53 PM PDT by nopardons
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sorry it was humor. My ex was not tone deaf. My father neither.


20 posted on 06/10/2019 9:04:37 PM PDT by morphing libertarian ( Use Comey's Report, Indict Hillary now; build Kate's wall. --- Proud Smelly Walmart Deplorable)
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