Blog 9: Listening Exercise

In class today we did a listening exercise that I thought was very interesting. We listened to about 7 different pieces and recorded our emotions that we felt from the pieces. I found it very interesting how some pieces portray many different emotions than others. Some of the emotions I myself recorded from the music were terror, peace, happiness, excitement, sadness, mystery, confusion, gloomy, joyful, spunky, and hopeful. I thought this was even more interesting because it was very neat to see how different people felt different emotions than others on the same musical piece. It is crazy to me that one song can make each person feel so differently. The emotions people feel are inexact. I loved to hear the emotions that everyone felt because then I was able to see the musical piece in a different view other than my own. It is also exciting to feel the same emotions as others when you're listening to a piece because then you feel a sense of connection between yourself and the other person. I felt like since most of the pieces didn't have lyrics that I was able to focus more on the music and concentrate on it easier than if I was trying to listen to words.