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_Don_*]

I grew up with radio rather than TV.

The background music, which repeated regularly, nearly drilled into my subconcious when I constructed model airplanes. These were sticks and paper rather than plastic models patched together. The music would later haunt me into nightmares.  Hence, I learned turn the d___n thing off when concentrating upon a task.

Silence is my best enviroment for detailed, concentrated study. When designing graphically on a tube with a million loose ends to mentally juggle, I tend to talk to myself.  Does that count?

Classical music is something I learned to like and find that listening, especially when commuting in unobstructed environment, is extremely prone to inspire prosody.  I especially like Russian influence, which is roughly a march mixed with slovic dance.  Some French, Spanish, English, and Scandanavian composers are also terrific.  How about Wagner's "Flying Dutchman," or Beethoven's "Prometheus?"

Popular tunes tend to incorporate a degree of rhyme, which is catchy and usable without plagerism.  Unfortunately most pop music depends on instrumental rhythm and really crap up verbal lyrics unusable in poetry.

"Over the Rainbow" is entertaining, but not otherwise beneficial.

Now you know a mental nut.

Don