A concert last week started me thinking (again) about the relationship between what makes a good piece of music and why am I such a mule for good software.
I have always held classical music composers in high regard, simply for their ingenuity and for their gift to the human race. I've always wondered about the "method" which I appreciate their music. I often marvelled at how the composer parallel-thread (they make multi-threading seemed simple) the sounds of so many instruments and have them work together so beautifully. And of course, harmony is not really rocket-science; there are known "methods" to harmonise different notes to produce different feel, and usage different keys to convey a different mood. In fact, one can learn all these from any modern music lessons. But it is the touch of genius that makes a piece of music special, different from others, magical. That said, more often than not, I listen to the composer as opposed to the performing artiste.
It seems to come naturally, maybe because of the lack of enough proper musical training?; I am able to hear differences in composition and orchestration style ignoring all the technicalities of harmonies etc. I can quite accurate identify Beethoven, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Bach and Vivaldi works that are unknown to me. I'm sure I'm not alone as this is likely to come with time and experience. What attracts my attention is my ability to identify repeated patterns, and then such similar patterns in different contexts, from which I analyse in the subconscious and draw parallels.
What has all these got to do with software? To be continued...
PS. Many times I ask myself why I like to draw such difficult parallels. I have never gotten an answer to that question.
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