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The Soundtrack Show

What Is Music? No, Seriously, What Is It?

The Soundtrack Show

iHeartPodcasts

Film History, Music, Music History, Tv & Film

4.91.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2018

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

What is music? How do we define something so abstract? Something we can't see, and can only hear? This episode arms listeners with the ability to talk about their favorite soundtracks, using examples from Rocky, Superman, 2001: A Space Odyssey and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:31.3

What is music? Where does it come from?

0:34.0

It's such a huge part of our everyday lives,

0:36.0

but why does it remain elusive and abstract?

0:39.0

Time to give ourselves a reference point for a larger conversation. This is the soundtrack show. Oh, Welcome to the Soundtrack Show. I'm your host David W Collins and thank you so much, all of you, for your support on our very first episode last week where we kicked it off with great melodies, tell great stories.

1:31.0

We're going to continue our overview before we get really involved and really deep on just one project or one score.

1:37.0

We talked last time about what music actually is, but very briefly.

1:42.0

As I mentioned, this shows for everyone, regardless of your level of musical knowledge.

1:46.0

So if you're listening to this show, I'm going to go ahead and assume that it's because you love music, film scores, etc.

1:51.0

And that really is the only criteria here

1:53.4

for the soundtrack show.

1:55.4

Music is a huge part of our everyday lives.

1:59.0

I mean, besides what we'll cover on this show,

2:00.6

besides the things that we love movie scores TV scores video games theater

2:06.2

we're bombarded with music every single day in all sorts of ways in advertising in our cars in shops at the dentist office and the grocery store on the street

2:18.5

Even our ringtones our hold music social media you get get the picture. We are hearing music all the time, every day.

2:27.3

It's almost a part of our waking consciousness,

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