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Brobear,

The 0003/0004 errors that were bothering some of us for a while are not a problem with the present versions but they can still come up because of setup problems.
We need a good look at your setup to be sure. The install while not difficult has a lot of places to error. I install regularly on different computers so I'm use to looking for the little details. Now my setups work without thinking to much. But the first few times I had to redo a lot of things.

A list of the installed versions of the programs would be a good start. Maybe go back through the guide and check for details.

I have enjoyed the flexibility of rebuilder/cce. If you get everything the way you like it I think you will to.



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Mmmm ... Mozart and Beethoven. My brother-in-law, who manages a welding supply store, onced asked me what kind of music I liked, and I told him I had been listening to a lot of baroque lately. He got this puzzled look on his face, and then asked "what's broke about it?" I kept a straight face, although it was hard, and pulled a cassette out of the car so he could listen to some.

brobear ... where art thou? And your specs?

 

Yes I also like baroque as well. I was also listening to Bach who is considered the best of the baroque era, in fact the baroque era is considered to have ended when he died in 1750.

 

It's fascinating to me how different eras spawn different types of music to reflect that era. I wonder if baroque ended because Bach died, or if it was the natural end of an era as the industrial revolution took hold?

On another note, there were some studies a few years back that showed alpha wave activity in the brain increased while listening to baroque music. Alpha activity not only calms one, it often induces a very creative state.

 

Although Mozart is considered to be a classical era composer, he began during the late baroque era just as Beethoven another classical composer crossed over into the Romantic period. So there are no clearly defined musical eras. Are you referring to the Mozrt effect?

 

I had never heard of the Mozart effect until now...probably because I'm not in the educational field. From what I gather now, the term was likely coined around 1993...while the effects have been known for some time.

I started listening/collecting baroque right after seeing Ordinary People in 1980...where the theme music was Pachelbel's Canon. About the same time I was also dabbling on the fringes of the New Age movement and holistic health ... which involved biofeedback devices. Alpha waves had been known for their positive effects, as well as certain types of music, and it was then that some folks put it together that listening to barouque music resulted in an alpha wave state. (Alpha waves are credited with all sorts of good things from learning and creativity to good health.). I'm guessing this took seed, became a project of UC-Irvine profs Rauscher and Shaw in 1993, and then others, and is now a part of popular culture as the "Mozart effect." It always helps to have a sound bite to descibe an area of study.

 

The Mozart effect is supposed to stimulate upper brain function. It's been used prior to testing to improve student test scores. I'm not sure how much I buy into it but I have used it before testing, I figure it can't hurt then why not. I also injoy other barogue artists such as Pacabel and Vivaldi. I find the use of counter point used by baroque artists fascinating and highly complex since the idea is not to create harmonies. Bach could play three separate parts using only two hands. Ineffect hecreated a third part by swapping between his left and right hands.
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Being the inventive type, I always like to know the HOW or why something works. It's not enough to just say it does. I'm fairly well satisfied an alpha wave state increases creativity and other cognitive functions, and my experience is that baroque has this affect on me. Depending upon how a student is "wired"... I would think some students would respond to the music with an increase in alpha waves, while others would not.

I've always been in awe of the classical composers. I understand very little about music structure, but I only have to listen to recognize their genius. As you described Bach and the creation of a third part ... that's genius. Also, seeing the movie Amadeus allowed me to appreciate Mozart's genius more. I saw a Discovery program where some people compared Brian Wilson's works and genius to these classicists. This is difficult for me to tell, because I'm sidetracked by the lyrics...which seem rather ordinary.



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I sometimes wonder about genius and what it really is, expecially with the recent discussions of multiple intelligences. I'm not sure that I'd classify Brian Wilson in the same category as Mozart but Good Vibrations is one of the greatest rock tunes ever penned. Sometimes the music or lyrics aren't equal. Take Dylan for instance, his lyrics are considered poetic works but his music was never that involved and certainly not equal to his words.

 

Genius is difficult to define, especially with multiple intelligences. I equate genius to creativity, rather than to raw intelligence...where genius is often used in terms of I.Q. I think when someone does something inventive, and with a deeper understanding, and in a way it hasn't been done before...that's a sign of genius. What Bach did was a good example. Using this as a standard, I, too, would be hard pressed to put Wilson into this category.

In the area of invention, which I'm familiar with, genius often expresses itself by taking a concept in one area, and combining it with a concept from another unrelated area, and coming up with something entirely new, and innovative. I suspect this could apply to music as well. The "Glenn Miller" sound comes to mind. One story has it that it happened by accident, and another says it was intentional ... that Miller "heard" the sound in his mind before putting it together.



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Yes Glenn Miller is certainly a talent to be recognized across generations. Mozart too was thought to have completed his works in his head. Reviews of Beethoven's manuscripts reveals revision after revision before he settled on a finished work. And yet his comparative works such as his symphonies and concerto's rivaled or even surpassed those of Mozart's. Both are thought to be genuises but Mozart's genius is more immediate than Beethoven's. It was believed that Mozart could go and listen to a never before heard symphony and then return home and write the symphony's entire score from memory.
Beethoven of course had to imagine his music in his head because of his deafness.

Is it me or have we taken being off topic to a new dimension. LOL
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lol. Yeah, a new dimension. The "appropriateness" of our discussion crossed my mind, but the reality is that this thread has likely seen the end of its usefulness with the arrival of Shrink 3.2 and RB-CCE. There isn't much else to be said, is there?

 

I have shrink,decrypter and Nero! Do I neeed more than excellent media?

 

Only the Movie!

 

I thought that about 600 posts ago but then along comes another interested person and often a new CCE convert. I think for the old crew it's history but it's that history that others are drawn to. The thread has a life of its own. Maybe it's these bits of comradery between all of us that makes it still attractive.

 

I think so. Brings up the image of some old guys at the General store sitting around a pot-bellied stove warming their feet while waiting for a customer to come in.

 

Hmmm! Thanks for that image Doc! All of a sudden I have a pain in my shoulder and an urge for some gruel. LOL

 

Well, I hear the one of the best things for that kind of pain is to put a movie into the RB-CCE cooker, and go stroll Busch Gardens with beer and babe. How's that for imagery?

 

Sounds better and I live within 5 minutes of Busch gardens and I have a season Pass. Does this mean that my wife has to be the babe?

 

If you want to live a long and healthy life she is.