Does Music influence your writing? Options

[Cleo_Serapis]

A GREAT topic for discussion!

From Merlin:

Studies done on the subject show that certain music puts the mind at ease, and aids in a person's ability to study, or relax... different things.  Baroque music is said to be best.  It has also been established that teenagers can do very well studying while listening to rock.  Others may do the same with their own preference.

Music affects the brain in particular ways - even peculiar ways.

Does this relate to poetic styles?  Do some age groups prefer one over the other?  

Merlin

Good topic Merlin!

[Guest_Tao_*]

Hi Cleo,

Great topic!  :pharoah2

Yeah, I used to do homework in front of the TV too! There's a theory that we never use our entire attention on one given task, therefore we need some “white noise” to occupy that part of the brain that would otherwise distract us from the work at hand.

Of course we write to music! I sure do. I suppose that means I have an ear for the universal language. When it comes to music, I’m sort of like Bo Derek in the movie “10,” I like different music for different moods. Showing my age a little.

There are times when I feel like Mozart and Beethoven - nothing like a piano concerto or a special movement in a symphony to get the muse started. Other times, it’s bosa nova by its creator Antonio Carlos Jobim, or Frank Sinatra and Fly Me to the Moon. Other times, it’s show tunes and movie soundtracks like West Side Story, or some classic rock and roll, U2, Billy Joel, Queen and Fleetwood Mac, and oldies like Under the Boardwalk and some soul food from Marvin Gaye. Some opera or country classics like Stand By Your Man! Even world music, as they call it, some primordial African beat, love those drums. Yeah, I do it all.

Out of all that, I found Mozart's music to be the best for creativity and thinking in general. It has a way of clearing my mind with its innocence and yet it reaches deeply with raw sentiments. It’s what I listen to when planning life’s major events!

And some of my best verse comes to me while listening to great, emotional music. Does anyone not feel anything hearing the first line from Judy Garland’s Somewhere Over the Rainbow?

David