Need to know: It girl Pixie Geldof exceeds musical expectations.
Indeed, without meter and rhythm to spar against, without our purely musical expectations to abuse, his conceits sound almost banal.
It has been my most divisive piece with audiences, since it requires a letting go of musical expectations and a complete openness to sound as it happens.
While Mr. Perlman's effect on ticket sales has carried over to shows in which he does not appear as a violinist or conductor — sales for the Nov. 13 performance, with the guest conductor Chelsea Tipton II, are brisk — his monetary and musical expectations reflect his status as a leading artist on the world stage.
Why should we care, though, whether our musical expectations are right or not?
The listener informed by music theory learns to hear, and thereby take pleasure in, different types of modulation from one key to another, and is thereby primed for certain musical expectations, creating alternating tensions, fulfillments, and surprises as the musical performance unfolds.
Just as others changed a genre enough to form post-hardcore, Mewithoutyou takes everything we learned from Family Man and goes far beyond anyone's musical expectations.
Instead we propose that that the observed pattern of subcortical on-line plasticity results from the statistical enhancement of intrinsic circuitry interacting with top-down influences such as auditory memory, musical knowledge, expectation and/or grouping via the corticofugal pathway.
NEW YORK @ NIGHT McCann/Kaali-Nagy paperbackg Group ($11.95 paperback) With New York City having played such a pivotal role in fostering so many musical styles, expectations here are higher than in other cities.
Specifically, as listening to familiar music involves expectation and prediction based on prior knowledge to musical excerpts, a listener's memory might play a crucial role in musical perception and can affect the emotional reaction.
And given that people were going to be walking into this musical with certain expectations in their head because they already had the film version of Aladdin..
