Following the musical suprise makes for a "hit" idea... Maybe with great pieces of music, they have a very high level of inner coherence and complexity, so that the brain gets a "fix" of musical "suprise" everytime it is listened to. With dinky art, you get it the first time. For instance, I see new things everytime I see the movie "Brazil", and I've seen it a gazillion times.
Another possibility is that the built in surprises are at odds in a peculiar way to musical convention so that it is a little thrill every time, simply due to our daily conditioning.
Like the funky meter of the Adagio for Strings (an example in that post) is just a teeny bit off from what you expect that it teases you every time even when you sort of expect it. Sorry for blathering, I'm sleepy.
Tako
Greypins@a... wrote: > it seems that this would indicate that we become bored with music once > we know it and yet, we all know that we grow more attached to music we love > the more we listen to it. does this mean that the neural pathways that are > affected by music are not the same ones that remember music?
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