The Score Magazine January 2019 issue | Page 25

ARITRO ARITRO GHOSH GHOSH M Well, it’s on a similar road as the latter but not exactly that. Music works the same way that a storybook would. If you read Looking for Alaska, you’ll notice whether it’s a breezy winter night, or a fair, summer morning, you will feel the cold importance in terms of emotion that the book embodies. usic! The backbone of happy times, and the solemn serenade behind our sudden sad times. However, with it as we all know, there is a clear reflection of various psychological atmospheres. The misdemeanor in most cases is that all of it is based on the listener himself. Now while that makes perfect sense on the surface, it is also an evident fact that if you play a soulful Nusrat Fateh Ali song while you’re on a borderline cliff, you’ll feel the strength of love again. So what is it then? Does listening to a nice, party song bring you up again only if you’re that type? Or does listening to an Arijit Singh make you hopelessly emotional no matter what was going on? S : s y p c h y o l p lo im Each genre in music is a brisk embodiment of it’s tune. Julie Andrew’s and Western Classical’s 7 commandments: Do re mi fa So la Ti, or our Eastern Classical’s Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Dha Ni Sa; both command the same passion in you, just from their simple tune. Of course, not going by just mere commandments, let’s look at core specifics. CLASSICAL MUSIC Classical music, in one word is “raw”. Musicians like the great Ravi Shankar, and vocalists from Pandit Jasraj, Jagjit Singh, and so on have revolutionized what Indian Classical is today with their ghazals and surila geets. However while each geet echoes melody that’s divine, the divinity is made up of a cultural coalition that always seems fresh no matter when the song is from, or what primary story it tells us. That is the foundation that the singer creates. The traditional, lyricless ghazals enchant with minds of their own, swooping the heart within your own intelligence with great power. Songs by masters like Jagjit Singh teach stability whether it’s about love, or about our country. This music genre usually displays emotion in reticence, much like a human being himself does in an open environment. ROCK Rock, in all it’s flaming and earthly glory, has over the years taught each of us about solitude and salvation, in different ways with its mighty fury. There is slower and more musical, classic rock, which hopes to tell us to bend the expectations of the world and fill it with fun and dreams of hope. Then there is hard rock, which mindfully has decided to bend the world itself and signify the stories of malice, miscreancy, and matadorous mayhem. The psychology that rock displays in its every beat ranges from the basic personality that a person may hide, to the worst possible side that he may show when he’s lost it. Rock tries to channel out the warm and the cold feelings of a rebel in his/her truest skin. You could call the West as the godfather, but many Indian rock bands have managed to follow; whether it’s with their covers or with their own songs. BOLLYWOOD Finally we have our favorite—Bollywood music. Bollywood music defines everything that is special about the contemporary music culture of our country, in just two words. However it’s the openness and “ready to grow and experiment” attitude that makes it what it is, along with all the groovy moves that we display utter playful nature. Bollywood music is all about inspiring and molding into something or someone fresh. You’ll notice that to be whether it’s a sad love song, or a catchy, party song. The Score Magazine highonscore.com 23