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To: Slings and Arrows

There is nothing unusual about having instrumental music playing in your head if you listen to classical a lot. Sometimes I can mentally go through a whole movement of a symphony or concerto without being able to place it. Usually it’s Mendelssohn, Dvorak, Schubert, or Mahler.


22 posted on 10/24/2009 5:02:20 AM PDT by proxy_user
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To: proxy_user

“There is nothing unusual about having instrumental music playing in your head if you listen to classical a lot.”

This is the solution to low-brow earworms, fer sher. ;^)

Actually, I consider this feature a dividend of listening to the classical composers; one can call up movements and solos, and vary the orchestrations - it’s never boring.

Otoh, Bobby Goldsboro singing something in your head can be a near-death experience! But, merely summon the shades of Vivaldi, Bach, and Beethoven, and the screeching hyenas vanish.

It works for me.


42 posted on 10/24/2009 6:03:08 AM PDT by headsonpikes (Genocide is the highest sacrament of socialism - "Who-whom?")
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