1 July 2005, 2:07 AM

Music associations

I've just been going through my collection of instrumental or non-English-or-French vocal music, assigning categories to all the songs. (I don't speak French well, but I know just enough that hearing occasional words will drive me nuts.)

Anyway...I had a point...oh yes. I'm fascinated that every single piece by the Canadian Brass makes me think of mid-1800s society. See, I used to watch the 1994 version of Little Women all the time, and the score is very heavy on brass. Took me a while to figure that out, though. It's rare that I have such strong associations, but I can't stand any brass except the highest quality--the thing I hated most about percussion was always sitting behind the trumpets.

Oh, and a capella with a wide range of voice parts will always be Church Music to me. I don't know why, as I never attended church and wasn't a great fan of spiritual works; I think it may have had something to do with the choice of music in all the choirs in which I sang.

So, the short version of this is, when I'm writing spiritual stories, or stories set in a world similar to mid-1800s Western society...the songs on the soundtrack are ALL GOING TO SOUND THE SAME. Hee.

Thus wrote Melanie in the categories: Writing