Music Theory: Week 3

Categories: study, music

Date: 20 September 2006 09:43:38

The course continues to be extremely enjoyable and extremely informative: I truly am, I believe, getting a deeper appreciation for music and what it involves -- and particularly the great talent of those who are skilled in it.

We looked at harmony, chords and form last night: with form broken down into various types including Standards, Pop, Sonata, Rondo, Binary and Ternary. On the topic of Standards, it was interesting to hear a recording of I Get a Kick Out of You that contained the original lines from the second verse:

Some get a kick from cocaine
I'm sure that if
I took even one sniff
That would bore me terrifically, too
The (few) times I've heard this song before it was the 'censored' version as given on that Wikipedia article.