There is a guy named George Lipsitz who writes a lot about social issues whom you might find interesting. Overuse of particular words has resulted in some words loosing specific meaning in general use. That is their feeling about it but says little about the actual 'thing' or 'event' that initiated the feeling.

That is like people describing technology as 'cool', or 'awesome'.

Think of all the names for 'fast', or all the different ways to describe a particular bow stroke.

That is like saying Mozart wrote some 'fast' music. So 'relaxing' might suffice for many who lack the motivation to expand their vocabulary. My point is that outside of any discipline the language is not precise and compounded with some folks having a limited spoken vocabulary we can not be too surprised when descriptions are a bit bland. So Al could the issue be that posters here are voicing disappointment in the lack of rich vocabulary in play when people describe their experience when listening to music? Like the Inuit having X number of words to describe snow.

Precise language is common within a discipline.

prognosis remains guarded by and large because deep inside, it is still us vs them. kucklehead violinists with zeal probably will f up any god given opportunities to be a good ambassador for classical music. but, sandy being a psychologist and a gent may have something to do with it. Meanwhile, may want to read sandy's experience with the rotary club in which there is much profound wisdom and style that other violinists should aspire to learn or even emulate. another way to put it, try not to bite the hand that has been feeding you. and hopefully i would expect you develop some level of empathy so that a question of this nature would have found an answer within your own soul. One person reportedly finds another person to marry simply because of a singular reaction to music?Īnd gary, you are a practicing dentist and i presume you come across people from all walks of life in your practice. Some even post pieces that are not 'relaxing' to support the silly argument, without knowing precisely what others find to be 'relaxing'. WHY SHOULD PEOPLE NOT FIND CLASSICAL MUSIC RELAXING IF THEY DO FIND IT RELAXING?

interesting to see the responses when gary introduced an average person's response to how he/she feels about classical music and we have essentially the entire thread being rather inconsiderate, condescending or what have you to others' feelings.

Soft classical music for sleeping