tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30312228.post6698833098841402264..comments2023-11-03T06:26:00.486-07:00Comments on Ms. Kitty's Saloon and Road Show: Learning Something OldUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30312228.post-4954928380083576552008-07-25T06:22:00.000-07:002008-07-25T06:22:00.000-07:00If you strike out on that, I would be willing to l...If you strike out on that, I would be willing to lend you my set. Another friend has them right now, but when she's done, I can send them to you.Lilylouhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02328027965155428624noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30312228.post-4763470771924290222008-07-24T22:40:00.000-07:002008-07-24T22:40:00.000-07:00Great idea! I didn't think of the library, but we...Great idea! I didn't think of the library, but we have one near us that's mostly things recorded (both video and audio). I'll check with them. <BR/>thanks.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30312228.post-33812299993149708132008-07-21T10:50:00.000-07:002008-07-21T10:50:00.000-07:00Hi, Kim,I think they would be helpful to a non-mus...Hi, Kim,<BR/>I think they would be helpful to a non-musical person. I got this set of DVDs on sale for $39.95 instead of the $300 or so it normally costs. You might check your local library and see if they have something like it.Lilylouhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02328027965155428624noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30312228.post-84339495535470317672008-07-21T10:32:00.000-07:002008-07-21T10:32:00.000-07:00Would those lectures be appropriate for the musica...Would those lectures be appropriate for the musically impaired? I can't carry a tune, and am sometimes tone deaf. I know it's weird, but it comes and goes. Other times i can tell if one instrument in an orchestra is off. <BR/>I know absolutely nothing about music except that if the note is higher on the paper it's higher. Even if I can only sometimes tell what "higher" is.<BR/>I have no sense of rhythm either. <BR/>But I would love to know more about music, so I would know better how to listen to it. I've received ads for those lectures and wondered if it would be appropriate for me. But they're too expensive to just try with no idea....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30312228.post-49403615564273124642008-07-20T17:51:00.000-07:002008-07-20T17:51:00.000-07:00Thanks, LF. I don't know that I will pursue more ...Thanks, LF. I don't know that I will pursue more understanding very soon, but I appreciate the references and now know of more resources.Lilylouhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02328027965155428624noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30312228.post-13660680657822742072008-07-20T16:13:00.000-07:002008-07-20T16:13:00.000-07:00Kit, I was lucky that in high school I had a music...Kit, I was lucky that in high school I had a music theory course in which we studied Paul Hindemith's "Elementary Training for Musicians" (something like that)from beginning to end, and then in my senior year of high school I read through Roger Session's very readable introduction to classical harmony<BR/>(the music teacher was a wonderful person who came out as a lesbian on national television in the '70s). From what you say, at this point you are ready to read those books or comparable ones (Hindemith first), and you will find it very rewarding, for instance, to understand the harmonic structure of the chords in a Bach chorale. I regret that I have forgotten a lot of this analytic background since I no longer do music actively. Harmony is not only rational, it is mathematically based, as the Greeks understood.LinguistFriendhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02695715246663202212noreply@blogger.com