#the music box

[rosariumpartone]

quote from The Music Box ♫

[provoiceactor1]

I was really inspired by @pillowspace ‘s video and au so I wanted to moonify the music box theme (Not the best singer so I apologize for that 😂 everything in this video belongs to pillow, the only thing is me voicing moon)

[somebeetledude]

‘The king in yellow is behind all the music motifs in malevolent!’ WRONGG BUZZER NOISE BUZZER NOISE ITS KAYNE

[genimas]

Day 29- Navigator

[zippocreed501]

Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy

The Music Box (1932)

[makeitquietly]

*splash*

[spockeye-fierce]

A young Cheryl Ladd and a Vox? *edit* So I looked it up. She was in a band called “The Music Box”. In the cartoon “Josie and the Pussycats”, she was the voice of Melody. Live and learn…

[citizenscreen]

James Parrott’s THE MUSIC BOX, starring Laurel and Hardy, was released #OnThisDay in 1932.

[dawnstar137]

The king in heaven

The witch in slumber

The princess lost in the woods

And the prince alone

[ennaih]

Every Film I Watch In 2023:

117. The Music Box (1932) - a rewatch

[rosariumpartone]

quote from The Music Box

[vanillacorpse]

Recently watched Boy From Heaven (Cairo Conspiracy) and this song caught my attention when it played in the background of a scene. I thought it was so pretty and I wanted to share it, as well as urge ppl to watch the movie if you haven’t, it’s good. 

Translation of lyrics:

I love the sea, tender as you are  And at times, like you, crazy Migrating, traveling. At times, like you, confused At times, like you, angry At times full of silence. I love the sea.  I love the sky Because, like you, it's forgiving Sown with stars and joy A lover and a stranger. And because, like you, it's distant And sometimes, like you, near, with eyes that sing. I love the sky. I love the road Because on it is our meeting, Our joy and our sorrow, Our friends and our youth, And on it our tears laughed And our candles wept, And a friend was lost. I love the road. I love the sea, And I love the sky And I love the road Because they are life And you, my love, You are life itself.

[norahmusic]

Why do melodies bring us out our feelings?

Songs are perceived emotionally by our senses through melody and harmony. Melody is the part of a song that gets wrapped in your brain after listening to it. Rhythm is what sets the tone of a melody. Melody consists of a pitch or the sequence of sounds arranged as a series of notes and duration of each one of the notes on such sequence of notes (1). Harmony progression is how notes are combined simultaneously in a melody. Minor chords are used to provide low emotions and major chords usually convey happiness and optimism. Dissonant harmonies introduce tension and consonant harmonies stability and resolution. These progressions are modulated by music dynamics such as crescendos (growing intensity) and decrescendos (decreasing intensity) on each piece, emphasizing key moments.

The first known melody is dated on 1400 B.C and was discovered on a clay tablet in Syria (1).  It is called “Hurrian Hymn No.6” (2). In prehistory, humans mimicked sunrises and sunsets as they perceived them in nature, connecting with their inner being and nature. Melodies are a result of mirroring and mimicking our environment and ambient. This is also known as emotional resonance (3). Since our brains recognize better a repeated pattern than a new one, earworms become a successful element inside a melody. Notes combination, predictability and repetition on melodies composition makes our brain recognise as familiar (9) due to its structure and harmony.

Music is a universal language, like Mathematics. Rhythm and the way notes are combined is what produce a melody of one type or another. Melodies, spoken language and time perception of sound, are processed differently on each hemisphere, speaking processing happens in the left and melodic processing on the right auditory cortex (4). We have in common the shape and composition as human beings (senses to perceive the ambient when it comes to feel music and listen to another person speaking for instance), therefore, we share the same scale of feelings (perception varies on each one of us since our background and evolution are different). A Melody can shake and make shiver any human across the globe, jumping over any barrier we attempt to put in between us.

Rhythms have to do with timing, and how a same structure of chords and notes can seem so different, even if we compare the “ingredients” of two melodies and as a result we see they seem to be equal at first sight but they don´t sound the same when heard because “the way they are mixed down” is different. Rhythm is the heartbeat of a melody, and it synchronizes with our heartbeats when we expose ourselves to a song. When we listen to a song we end up moving our body at that same beat. Synchronizing with rhythm and drumming has been used as an evolutive resource, to keep the social group together, strengthen bonds and improve chances of survival (4) since prehistory.

Music makes us feel good, can surprise us, helps us to appraise things and music itself, it is action intended. It helps us being synchronized with our feelings, evokes memories and realizes past emotions, connects us and promotes the use of our imagination. Fast beats and bright tones can make us motivate ourselves inducing more positive emotions and slow beats have the opposite effect on us. Rhythmic patterns evoke emotional responses on our brain and body. Tensions and releases created within rhythm disrupt the pattern of a melody, solving it after a number of compasses releasing the tension, providing a sense of pleasure in the brain when heard. We synchronize with notes, chords and beats; hence we are always exposed to connect with what we are listening to. We connect with melodies due to emotional resonance, when listening to a song, we release mirror neurons and emotional contagion takes place, making us to live that story while the song is playing as if it was our own story. Lyrics act as a storyteller, sharing a story about Love and Loss, a Bad Day, Happiness and Joy, Friendship, Personal Liberation, Life, the Magic of Minor or a World of Fantasy (5). Singing along to the melody you are listening to, makes us feeling like being part of that story for a while, activating our sense of happiness and feeling of being understood, making us feel relieved.

Lyrics also encourage our intellect with subliminal messages we encounter when we listen carefully to a composition. Spoken language elevates music higher bringing creativity to a half-hidden level that our brains identify as puzzles, and it does it expressing and meaning more than what we literally hear in a verse, a chorus, or a bridge within the song we are listening to. Songs send hidden messages we encounter when we mirror with what it´s telling us, being able to understand through our own experiences and resonating with those. Unexpected changes in melodies such as chord progression or key change brings us a feeling of surprise that intensifies our emotional response as listeners rewarding us with pleasure afterwards. This is why melodies are so engaging, they speak right to our heart and our brain through a language we can understand.

Melodies help us enhancing our memory unlocking “lost” memories of a past and good moment for instance, letting us have a better perception of what happened if that memory wasn´t a good experience and easing our perception of that moment. Music helps to have more quality of life and it helps to have a “better organized closet” up there our shoulders. The feeling of pleasure that our body experiment when listening to a calming and gentle melodies, triggers the production of “happy hormones” (6). Melodies can act as painkillers for chronic pain patients as well, easing the stress they experiment while suffering pain giving the brain and body a more than needed break, helping it to self-regulate better for a while and improving health in the middle and long term. The same logic works for healthcare providers, music can also relieve stress and making their daily work a bit better.

We can use music and melodies to perform a better activity (7). A runner may listen to more boosting melodies than dancers or chronic-pain patients, because the response of the endocrine system differs while listening to those different melodies, and so is our physical activity. Other more “unstructured, floaty and dreamy” melodies can be used to empower and boost creativity on artists or people who develop creative work. There are different types of components linked to positive emotions (8). Melodies can lift up your mood with brighter timbre keys or calm you down with more relaxed tunes, it brings us companion when feeling lonely with minor tones and cheering us up when we are feeling down with major tones.

This is how melodies connect with us and makes us connect among us. Music is live human history. A history of our experiences, the way we deal with them and how we progress in solving them. The common threads we use to share this information among us are melodies and songs. It is our choice with which type of thread we would like to be connected.

Thanks for smiling. Enjoy the sunset!

References:

(1) How Melody and Harmony evokes emotion, https://medium.com/@athilk25/the-power-of-melody-and-harmony-how-music-evokes-emotion-82693f4b7bf3 | https://www.masterclass.com/articles/music-101-what-is-melody#7zAvYMrQjd5ql5XMcURZu6

(2) The Oldest Known Melody, https://youtu.be/QpxN2VXPMLc

(3) The Psychology of music: how melodies, rhythms and lyrics impact our emotions, https://medium.com/@pinnacleinsights369/the-psychology-of-music-how-melodies-rhythms-and-lyrics-impact-our-emotions-a4f3c5877d21  | https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20130418-why-does-music-make-us-feel-good

(4) Cognitive Processing in Music and Language, https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0073372 | https://neuro-class.com/la-musica-en-el-cerebro-cuando-el-cerebro-escucha/ | https://hipertextual.com/2020/02/asi-distingue-cerebro-musica-y-habla

(5) Song Writing Prompts, https://robinpiree.com/blog/songwriting-prompts | https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/science-choice/201906/6-ways-music-affects-your-emotions

(6) Happy hormones, https://www.nationalgeographic.com/premium/article/happy-hormones-dopamine-serotnin-endorphins-natural

(7) How Music affects us emotionally, https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/science-of-choice/202309/how-music-affects-us-emotionally

(8) Happy songs, https://theconversation.com/happy-songs-these-are-the-musical-elements-that-make-us-feel-good-201342

(9) How does music help us feel, https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/your-musical-self/202103/how-does-music-help-us-feel

(10)The 8 components of musical emotion, https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/science-choice/202106/the-8-components-musical-emotion

[chloesimaginationthings]

Why the FNAF puppet loves the music box,,

[makeitquietly]

The Music Box (1932): Ollie’s moments of suffering (2/2)

[schonheit-ist-in-alles]

who?

hey just so you know, op of that post you reblogged let the dogs out :/