tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post3722433351054754686..comments2024-03-27T23:06:03.736-05:00Comments on The Music Salon: Researchers have found...Bryan Townsendhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09482696991279345516noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post-45501927344701396502012-02-14T19:14:51.628-06:002012-02-14T19:14:51.628-06:00Just search for 'Schumann' and 'bipola...Just search for 'Schumann' and 'bipolar', or really just about any dead composer, artist, writer and your choice of over-diagnosed mental disorder. You're sure to find a wealth of garbage!Nathan Shirleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14123467208814463388noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post-18355630341463765282012-02-14T05:32:19.632-06:002012-02-14T05:32:19.632-06:00Cool! I'm not the only curmudgeon. Hi Michael-...Cool! I'm not the only curmudgeon. Hi Michael--believe it or not, I had to Google Floyd Cramer! Amazing the gaps in one's knowledge of music history. Thanks for filling that one in. Yes, I intentionally avoided any comment on Adele herself because I wanted to focus just on these idiot 'researchers'.<br /><br />Nathan, do you have a link to the 'research' on Schumann? I think we should meet this unfortunate trend with ridicule whenever possible.Bryan Townsendhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09482696991279345516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post-25970016832316009002012-02-13T23:33:18.260-06:002012-02-13T23:33:18.260-06:00Next they'll discover minor chords sound sad a...Next they'll discover minor chords sound sad and major chords sound happy.<br /><br />What really gets me is this (new?) trend of posthumous psychiatric diagnosis (and the wide reporting of it). "Psychologist says Schumann bipolar"Nathan Shirleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14123467208814463388noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post-18921096318250779472012-02-13T17:43:03.736-06:002012-02-13T17:43:03.736-06:00Well, at the risk of sounding all curmudgeonly, le...Well, at the risk of sounding all curmudgeonly, let me say that I listened to a report of this "research" on NPR tonight.<br /><br />What I thought was that Adele's music had the power to invoke great emotion in me, too, for instance, taking the nearest appoggiatura and sticking it in the woman's eye.<br /><br />She has a voice that makes chalkboard screeches sound positively Heavenly.<br /><br />They, the appoggiaturi, also explain why a friend finds the "piano" music of Floyd Cramer so difficult to listen to.Michael Scottnoreply@blogger.com