no category for Bass conception

[suraci]

such as
the masculine and feminine
do these concepts or whatever you understand them to be
strike you as useless , outmoded etc
or like me, do you feel there is a way that masculine and feminine can be applied to music ?
I have ( and have ) to study what far
wiser souls have said along these lines, to dare make such an apparently rash statement . any takers
if you want to joke, be my guest, but it’s also worthy of a few moments of thought too.

 

[dreamadream99]

I do not understand the question, but I will say that, with the exception of English, almost every other western romance language has gender assigned to most nouns. This means that in languages, like French, Spanish, and Italian, the notion of a noun having an inherent, acceptable, obvious, and recognizable gender is the norm.

 

[suraci]

thank you for responding .
in another recent thread,
i had used the word “masculine”.
I rarely think this way within a musical context , but a certain bass player brought that word masculine out of my mind .
A few respondents poked fun at my using this word in a musical context .
i can see why my calling a players’ style masculine would be worthy of being joked at.
I defended my position by calling A classical music composition as feminine.

in any case
are the traditional words masculine and feminine still of utility at this time ?

and furthermore , is using such terms within the world of music and musicians, an outmoded idea.. there is no point. because these two terms are 100% subjective.. and in a sense meaningless

 

[Malcolm35]

Have not explored that rabbit hole. Have fun, I'll wait on the other side.

 

[mambo4]

because these two terms are 100% subjective..

Applying more general, non-musical, adjectives like masculine and feminine to music is much less useful and productive than using actual musical terms. Such communication suffers from the same subjectivity as vague pseudo-musical terms like groove, pocket, swing, tone, mojo, punch, growl, soul etc.

Such words tend to mean different things to different people and should be left to uneducated music journalists.
I suppose as individuals we can use such labels in our head ( " this riff sounds fishy, this one sounds fruity") to help us remember and mentally organize stuff. But when talking with other musicians we can describe music much more precisely and usefully.

 

[Killing Floor]

I still get confused with chaussures and gilet.