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= Welcome to the Music Vocabulary Relationship Catalogue! = | = Welcome to the Music Vocabulary Relationship Catalogue! = | ||
''murelca'' ('''Mu'''sic Vocabulary '''Rel'''ationship '''Ca'''talogue) is a project to collect the vocabulary people use to describe music, and the relationships of these terms. If you read Madison Bloom's review of Julia Holter's 2023 single ''Sun Girl'' in the ''Pitchfork'' magazine,[https://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/julia-holter-sun-girl/] the music is described with wordings like childlike, bagpipe, melting, birdsong, piccolo, drum machine, mellotron, bubbling, sing-song, nursery rhyme, surrealistic, lap steel guitar, whirring, looping vocals, sheer voice, key plinks, circular melody, craggy drums, screeching sax, placid vocals, baroque, chamber pop, psychedelia, dream, swirling, brassy, | ''murelca'' ('''Mu'''sic Vocabulary '''Rel'''ationship '''Ca'''talogue) is a project to collect the vocabulary people use to describe music, and the relationships of these terms. If you read Madison Bloom's review of Julia Holter's 2023 single ''Sun Girl'' in the ''Pitchfork'' magazine,[https://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/julia-holter-sun-girl/] the music is described with wordings like [[Item:Q484|childlike]], [[Item:Q17|bagpipe]], [[Item:Q486|melting]], [[Item:Q487|birdsong]], [[Item:Q259|piccolo]], [[Item:Q488|drum machine]], [[Item:Q489|mellotron]], [[Item:Q491|bubbling]], [[Item:Q492|sing-song]], [[Item:Q495|nursery rhyme]], [[Item:Q170|surrealistic]], [[Item:Q177|lap steel guitar]], [[Item:Q496|whirring]], [[Item:Q497|looping vocals]], [[Item:Q498|sheer voice]], [[Item:Q499|key plinks]], [[Item:Q500|circular melody]], [[Item:Q501|craggy drums]], [[Item:Q502|screeching sax]], [[Item:Q503|placid vocals]], [[Item:Q7|baroque]], [[Item:Q482|chamber pop]], [[Item:Q483|psychedelia]], [[Item:Q485|dream]], [[Item:Q490|swirling]], [[Item:Q493|brassy]] and [[Item:Q494|vibrant]]. Together, these indicate a very finely shaded verbal description of the song. The idea behind ''murelca'' is to collect such wordings to grasp their meaning in two ways: | ||
# Explore for which musical pieces the wordings are used. An interesting way is to listen to the music people tag with it on sites like [http://Last.fm Last.fm]. If you click on the tags listed in the ''Sun Girl'' example above, you'll see there are links to the respective Last.fm tag pages, where you can listen to the music people tagged with it. Doing so, you get a feeling about what that tag can mean. (I usually use the word ''tag'' for what I used to call "wording" in the introductory text, since it's a nice and snappy term. In the Wikibase terminology however, which is the software behind this site, they are called "Items", which is why you find links like "New Item" on the left menu bar. But you can call them whatever you prefer, occasionally I also call them "musical phenomenons" or "musemes") | |||
# Explore what the tags have to do with each other. On the tag pages on this site, there are [[Property:P2|"associated with"]] links, leading to the pages of other musical phenomenons | |||