Why Humans Are Drawn to Melodic Music

Added: 2026-05-29

[00:00:00]That's not really going in my view to get younger audiences to want to come to the symphony to see that and they're not going to remember it. In terms of the the musicality, the tonality, you know, I think it's very important to focus on tonal music for our format.

[00:00:16]I feel like it gets to be something that I I learned which is that humans, like most living creatures, I think are sort of prediction machines. We like to anticipate what's coming next even if we're not conscious of anticipating what's coming next. And so melodies are really phrases of language. They're just language of music. And we have a convention in Western music of how music theory works. It's not the only way that music works in this world, but within that convention there are certain things that you could play that you would be thinking, yes, that sounds nice. So, when we get to like atonal music, and I don't mean like just percussion, but I mean things like somebody slamming the lid of a piano and calling it music,