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PHQ | QUESTIONS FROM COMMUNITY: In this episode Joel and Antonia answer a question about music type theory and the idea of having a donation button on the Personality Hacker website.
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I don’t know anything about music, but I like your theory and it reminds me of the 8 body type constitutions of Korean acupuncture. I believe in a Creator, and a universal theory makes a lot of sense. It is nice to think that we humans are each one of 8 notes, imperfect, or unbalanced individually, but the sum is pure and perfect.
Cool, great idea! Thanks for the response, Charis!
As another Ni-user, I found your metaphors incredibly enlightening. I can’t follow the music talk, but once you used the metaphor of chess I got it! I love metaphors and especially appreciate the observation you made here:
“We don’t seek the dominant function because we are the dominant function. The dominant function describes how we move through life, I don’t see tension there because we own it. The inferior function describes what we’re moving towards. Its the goal point.”
That gives me a different perspective than I have ever really considered. It’s like approaching Driver/Copilot dichotomy from a completely different direction – and I like it! Thanks for your insights!
’@Meg! Thank you so much! I had not heard of the iso principle, but that is exactly what I was wanting to do with the app – begin with music that matches the mood and then lift gradually.
I’m disappointed to hear that there isn’t a consistent empirical method for matching mood and music. I suppose it makes sense given the broad spectrum of musical taste, but I was hoping that there were patterns that I am unaware of due to my lack of education in music.
I was thinking that maybe it would be possible to use a person’s own music collection (to account for the particular tastes/ genres, etc.) and then from that use interval, key, tempo, pitch, style, etc. to figure out the mood and then make the list to match and progressively lift.
In any event, I appreciate the information, and I will check out that site!
one last thing to add. The universal concept I was referring to is music itself, not music theory. Even in the western world music theory is not universal, especially here in Germany there are a lot of concepts that do not exist in British or American music theory. Yes, the octave and circle of fifths isnt found in all musical traditions, however, that doesn’t mean someone in India for example can’t still enjoy music such as the last movement of Beethoven’s 9th symphony and understand its “joyful”.
I believe music itself is universal, that irregardless of culture or language it can stir ones emotions and speak to one on a deeper level in a way everyone can understand.