Joshua T Law 羅天樂

I have discovered, after teaching and researching on voice and choir for many years, that many people do not hear pitch, (pitch color) tone quality, (tone color) melodic movement, dynamics and harmonic progression. And that has nothing to do with their ears. When they first heard music, unfortunately, they were intuitively drawn to many other elements such as sounds, sights, color and movement, but they missed the most important thing, the finer elements of music. Music to them is only pleasant “background” noise that produces good “feelings” coupled with the pleasurable chemical process in their bodies when they admire the singers’ glamour, beauty, riches, and fame plus the packaging and promotional fiasco. (They wish they could be like the singers/musicians – a groupies’ mentality.) So they could listen to music of their choice all day long without getting tired. I could never do that. In the extreme cases, some people simply cannot tell the difference between the sounds of falling pots and pans in the kitchen and the beautiful music in the best symphony halls of the world. Continue reading →