I'm aware that, no matter what I'm doing, I always have music in my head. It's like my own personal stereo. I asked my husband if he has the same but he says no. The only way I can stop it is to concentrate on the sound of my breathing, and even then it's only for a short while.

Sometimes it can be a bit of a nuisance, like in the Theory Exam when I was trying to concentrate on composing my melody, and couldn't get Schubert out of my head.

Right now I'm hearing Thomas Allen singing Brahms lieder! And very beautiful it is too. But I'm wondering who's the normal one, my dear husband or I?

Cheers

Amber
x

Me too!!

I always hear melodies in my head... sometimes its not the melodies that I like the most.. but I just happened to remember it... but sometimes when I wanted to remember a melody I just couldn't recall it... but when I don't take the effort to remember it... it sometimes just suddenly comes to my mind... and after that I couldn't shake it off! haha...

At the moment, I'm singing something from Joseph and his technicolor dream coat, which I haven't listened to for ages!! Last night, it was something we sang in choir, so yeah, I'm nearly always humming something. Apparently, haven't tried it though, singing "God save our Queen" gets rid of anything in your head! Except then I suppose you start singing that....

If I'm not singing, then I can always hear music or singing in my head, too.

At the moment, I can hear some awful Nativity Play stuff. (Anyone know of any good ones for primaries?)

I think all musicians do, as long as you are not constantly humming it under your breath (like my 7 year old does) so all normal folk think you belong in an institution then pick out your favourite and listen to your hears content.

Have you ever found yourself walking or doing something 'In time.' I've seen myself returning to my desk in 3/4 time rather than walking like a normal person!

Craig

Oh yes.....

My mother used to tell me off when I was young for always whistling around the house (she was very encouraging indeed - I just guess my whistling had a better tone in my head that the airy version anyone else heard!).

I suppose I control myself more (internally, in my head) these days - and I'm not listening to already known music all the time.

Don't you get the feeling when turning on classic FM that one day, yes one day, you actually WON'T have heard the piece before......

Love it.

I am not a singer but I always have the latest piano piece that I am working on going round in my head and its always how I think it should be played rather than the terrible way I am attempting it. So I suppose that's a good start!

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Have you ever found yourself walking or doing something 'In time.'

Yes, in fact i do this deliberately sonetimes to help me to sort out tricky timing.

Yah me too. I always have music in my head. Gets quite distracting when im in class and ive got rachmaninoffs second concerto or something stuck in my head when im supposed to be concentrating on equations or something. When I was younger I was always accused of daydreaming in school when I had my favourite songs stuck in my head.
Does anyone else listen through their exam pieces in their head and pick out mistakes they have been making, ways they can improove etc? Or is that just me......

Hi..

At the moment i have the music from the honda advert (hate something...change something....etc) which i love to pieces! But i hate it sooo much when i have a song i don't like stuck in my head..it drives me mad!!

Luv Teabag

xxx

I do as well... at the moment I've got about 4 bars of some Mozart piano concerto going round and round over and over again- and yes, I've done the "walking around in 3 time" thing as well!

I always have a tune in my head (at the moment it's the viola part of the Music Box Dance from the Snowman, mixed in with bits of Frosty the Snowman, Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, Pachebel's Canon and my GCSE composition). I'm one of those people who will start singing or humming at odd times - I've had loads of funny looks before! lol

I'm the same, right now I have Sarah McLachlan-Possesion going round in my head.

I also hear tunes in my head a lot! especially the songs we're doing in choir! the only problem is they don't normally stay in my head - I just randomly start singing along!!! it's really annoying when I'm at school and I really want to sing, but obviously can't, and then I get really frustrated because the tune's locked up in my head! oh well...

Yes, I suffer from/enjoy this too. Very frustrating when the same few bars keep repeating over and over again, even if it's something you like! Nice when singing, though, to have your own personal full accompanying orchestra in your head.

No surprise from me...I like to compose so the wretched stuff even haunts my dreams sometimes. Trouble is, if I could only remember some of the dream scores I'd probably get rich in films!!! Alas, no chance.

i'm quite good at it...having music that constantly wonders in my head.... at the moment is the Dovark (hope i've spelled it right).... the mass in d....it's lovely... and other odd bits of pieces of music as well...

Scriabin prelude I-forgot-which-one

QUOTE (liebe_klavier @ Nov 11 2004, 09:12 PM)

i'm quite good at it...having music that constantly wonders in my head.... at the moment is the Dovark (hope i've spelled it right).... the mass in d....it's lovely... and other odd bits of pieces of music as well...

Dvorak!!! Hehehe...

QUOTE (Amber @ Nov 10 2004, 09:28 PM)

I'm aware that, no matter what I'm doing, I always have music in my head.  It's like my own personal stereo.  I asked my husband if he has the same but he says no.  The only way I can stop it is to concentrate on the sound of my breathing, and even then it's only for a short while. Right now I'm hearing Thomas Allen singing Brahms lieder!  And very beautiful it is too.  But I'm wondering who's the normal one, my dear husband or I?

Well, I guess all these replies mean..... I'm the normal one, not him!!! Hurray, hurray, hurray!!!

[wanders off happily whistling Zippitty Doo Dah to herself]

Yes, because we're all totally normal here!

My theory is that we all have to be just a little mad (or maybe a bot more) to survive this world. It's makes it a much brighter place....

I'm quite mad!

Me too, also hear music in my head especially those pieces that I'm practising. I think we are perfectly normal.

Same here! From the minute I wake up from the minute I go to bed music is playing itself in my head!
jess

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also hear music in my head especially those pieces that I'm practising. I think we are perfectly normal.

absolutely. It's everyone else surely who is odd ??

Maggie

When I started to hum a piece of music, all my 'non-band friends" think I am crazy.. When I do that in front of my "band "friends, they started to hum with me ... Birds of the same feather hum together..

of course we are normal.....or else we won't be doing music here...

QUOTE (liebe_klavier @ Nov 12 2004, 04:32 PM)

of course we are normal.....or else we won't be doing music here...

strongly agreed!

I always hear music in my head - it's really good when you're singing operatic arias and can imagine the whole orchestra behind you... or when you're in the bath or something and you can just play and replay your favourite piece!

QUOTE (czaire @ Nov 16 2004, 04:27 AM)

QUOTE (liebe_klavier @ Nov 12 2004, 04:32 PM) of course we are normal.....or else we won't be doing music here... strongly agreed!

thanks....

i hum all the time and i don't realise im doing it. i get odd looks from people then.

I also find I have music going round in my head when I am really tired and I can't get to sleep because I have some tune going round and round and round....otherwise I often have one of my Diploma pieces on my mind which I hum or downright sing while pushing my 2year old around in his pram - looking like a batty mum I guess!

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QUOTE (Amber @ Nov 10 2004, 09:28 PM) Right now I'm hearing Thomas Allen singing Brahms lieder!  And very beautiful it is too.  But I'm wondering who's the normal one, my dear husband or I? Well, I guess all these replies mean..... I'm the normal one, not him!!! Hurray, hurray, hurray!!! [wanders off happily whistling Zippitty Doo Dah to herself]

nah, you're weird, Amber, in the best possible way.

(does everyone else miss Amber too? )

*leaves a hug lying around for when she comes back*

and I hum and sing all the time... and tend to sing in harmony with tunes under my breath!

QUOTE (lafrog @ Nov 16 2004, 08:44 PM)

I also find I have music going round in my head when I am really tired and I can't get to sleep

Strangely, I find that imagining playing the piano in my head sends me straight to sleep; I guess it stops my mind from thinking about anything else so it soon switches off.

I'm always getting Bach stuck in my head: the cycle of 5ths is lovely, it really is; but unfortunately, from a tune-stuck-in-head point of view, it's cyclical. The other day I couldn't shift one of the episodes from Fugue 24 (WTC I), the one that goes

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QUOTE (Amber @ Nov 10 2004, 01:28 PM)

I'm aware that, no matter what I'm doing, I always have music in my head. It's like my own personal stereo. I asked my husband if he has the same but he says no. The only way I can stop it is to concentrate on the sound of my breathing, and even then it's only for a short while. Sometimes it can be a bit of a nuisance, like in the Theory Exam when I was trying to concentrate on composing my melody, and couldn't get Schubert out of my head. Right now I'm hearing Thomas Allen singing Brahms lieder! And very beautiful it is too. But I'm wondering who's the normal one, my dear husband or I? Cheers Amber x

me three!!! lol....just now i was taking my theory exam and it got in the way soo much!!! (I couldn't get Beethoven out of my head!)

Well I end up listening to some noise, e.g the tap dripping and go "Ahh, that sounds like......." and it gets very annoying!

Do you find that one tune reminds you of another? I was in the orchestra for a performance of the Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No 2 last night (beautiful bass part: lots of rests and some satisfying counter-melodies) and finally realised (after many years wondering what it reminded me of) that the quick waltz that the violins play in the middle of the slow movement is very similar to an episode in the first number of Act II of "Gondoliers". "Gondoliers"was written in 1889 and the concerto in 1880, so there was time for it to get to England, but while Sullivan was a great imitator of styles I don't think he ever used other people's tunes.

I've been listening to an old (1953) recording of Humperdinck's Hansel und Gretel and parts of it sound exactly like Mahler. Strange. It must be the orchestration or maybe the chord progressions. It's a lovely opera anyway. One of the arias in the final act reminds me of "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year". Also strange.

I find it really annoying when you hear something and it reminds you of another tune and you spend all day sitting around waiting for it to click. Never does though...

...until 2am when you wake up and go "Yes! I remember now!" and then "awww it's 2am and I have to go to work/school/college tomorrow..."

lol, then you realise that since you found out what it was it is then stuck in your head and you can't get it out.

ahhhhh! yep! glad it isn't just me....

Ot your friend starts humming the great escape theme and you can't get it out of your head for ages!

eeep! not good...

QUOTE (woodwind @ Jan 23 2005, 04:50 PM)

I've been listening to an old (1953) recording of Humperdinck's Hansel und Gretel and parts of it sound exactly like Mahler. Strange. It must be the orchestration or maybe the chord progressions. It's a lovely opera anyway. One of the arias in the final act reminds me of "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year". Also strange.

A bit of Wagner in Mahler and lots in Humperdinck, who was Wagner's assistant for the Bayreuth production of "Parsifal" in 1881-2. H. was probably inspired to put three tunes at the same time in the overture by the "Mastersingers" overture.

Mahler's orchestration owes a lot to Wagner, but is even more refined.

QUOTE (Amadeus @ Jan 26 2005, 01:21 AM)

Let`s not forget Bruckner in relation to Mahler,but it`s too late now and I`m off to bed.

Both were influenced by Wagner, but I don't get the impression that either influenced the other. Mahler has much more of the tradition of Mozart and Mendelssohn in that his structure is elegant in both the large and the small. Bruckner symphonies remind me of a massive structure of granite blocks with insufficient mortar to fill in the gaps. IMO his music resembles that of Wagner as perceived by Rossini: lovely moments and bad quarters of an hour.

QUOTE (kenm @ Jan 26 2005, 12:24 PM)

QUOTE (Amadeus @ Jan 26 2005, 01:21 AM) Let`s not forget Bruckner in relation to Mahler,but it`s too late now and I`m off to bed. Both were influenced by Wagner, but I don't get the impression that either influenced the other. Mahler has much more of the tradition of Mozart and Mendelssohn in that his structure is elegant in both the large and the small. Bruckner symphonies remind me of a massive structure of granite blocks with insufficient mortar to fill in the gaps. IMO his music resembles that of Wagner as perceived by Rossini: lovely moments and bad quarters of an hour.

I can't agree, I'm afraid. There are certainly plenty of granite blocks in Bruckner's music but there's no shortage of mortar either. Grove likened the Bruckner symphonies to vast cathedrals "in their scale and their grandeur and in their aspiration to the sublime." I'm sure that, as a deeply devout man, Bruckner would have appreciated the comparison.

Thanks for explaining the Wagner/Humperdinck/Mahler connection. I didn't realise Humperdinck had ever been Wagner's assistant.