Reasoning by Analogy
Reasoning by analogy is comparing two similar situations in order to show the significance of one or both. For example, writing lyrical music is similar to yelling out your thoughts when no one is nearby to hear it. The thoughts you yell out are the lyrics of the song. The louder you yell, the more expressive and passionate your music will be because you are not afraid to yell your thoughts out loud. No one hearing your thoughts is like the audience that listens to the music. The most they will hear are the faint echoes of your yells while some will hear your thoughts clearly. In other words, most will not know the real meaning behind the music while others will.
Sign Reasoning
Sign reasoning can be used in order to interpret music. However, our interpretations may not be correct because sign reasoning depends on assumption. For example, in "Save The Best For Last" by Vanessa Williams, the lyrics say,
"It's not the way I hoped or how I planned.
But somehow it's enough.
And now we're standing face to face.
Isn't this world a crazy place?"
For my sign reasoning or interpretation, I think Vanessa was singing about a guy that she clearly did not expect to marry. "And now we're standing face to face" shows a scenario of looking at your significant other while you two are sharing vows on your wedding day.
However, I could be wrong. Also using sign reasoning, someone else may think "standing face to face" can also mean you and your significant other are about to kiss because it can apply to that situation.
Causal Reasoning
Causal reasoning can be used to figure out why musicians write certain songs. For example, when a musician falls in love, they may want to express their emotions through music. In other words, a musician may write a love song because they fell in love. They may also input happy and sad experiences they had in the past into their song. Music may be created because the musician may want to express their experiences through music. Without their experience, the music would never exist.
Reasoning by Criteria
People reason by criteria in order to evaluate what music is "good." Some people dislike rap because they dislike how the lyrics are hardly sung with a melody. Some people dislike slow music because they think it is boring. I do not dislike any of these genres though. Anyways, my point is that because people may think like this, they may also judge what song is "good" in their standards. However, everyone has a different taste in music so some may disagree with other's criteria of a song being "good."
Reasoning by Example
You can use reasoning by example in order to find out what instrument a musician loves playing. For example, although a musician may use various instruments in their music, there may be just that one instrument that appears in most of their songs. Vienna Teng's songs shares a variety of instruments. However, from listening to most of her songs, I can reason that she loves playing the piano the most because the piano is mostly played in most of the songs I have listened to. "Gravity," "Eric's Song," and her other songs usually start with the piano or mostly have the piano playing.
Inductive and Deductive Reasoning
We can use deductive reasoning in order to figure out why people write songs. According to most songs, people write about various experiences. In conclusion (through deductive reasoning), I can say that all songs are about experiences. However, in the case of inductive reasoning, we are basically thinking that the premises we make are true. For example, according to what I see, songs are probably written because people like to write about experiences. This is inductive reasoning because I am not using a premises that is provided to me. I am using my own made-up premises (which can also be true).
Reasonings can be used to interpret music. Because of reasoning, many people have different opinions about music. The examples of each reasoning that I listed are basically my interpretation music. In other words, I do not think everyone will have the same interpretations.
- Pink Bean
Sign Reasoning
Sign reasoning can be used in order to interpret music. However, our interpretations may not be correct because sign reasoning depends on assumption. For example, in "Save The Best For Last" by Vanessa Williams, the lyrics say,
"It's not the way I hoped or how I planned.
But somehow it's enough.
And now we're standing face to face.
Isn't this world a crazy place?"
For my sign reasoning or interpretation, I think Vanessa was singing about a guy that she clearly did not expect to marry. "And now we're standing face to face" shows a scenario of looking at your significant other while you two are sharing vows on your wedding day.
However, I could be wrong. Also using sign reasoning, someone else may think "standing face to face" can also mean you and your significant other are about to kiss because it can apply to that situation.
Causal Reasoning
Causal reasoning can be used to figure out why musicians write certain songs. For example, when a musician falls in love, they may want to express their emotions through music. In other words, a musician may write a love song because they fell in love. They may also input happy and sad experiences they had in the past into their song. Music may be created because the musician may want to express their experiences through music. Without their experience, the music would never exist.
Reasoning by Criteria
People reason by criteria in order to evaluate what music is "good." Some people dislike rap because they dislike how the lyrics are hardly sung with a melody. Some people dislike slow music because they think it is boring. I do not dislike any of these genres though. Anyways, my point is that because people may think like this, they may also judge what song is "good" in their standards. However, everyone has a different taste in music so some may disagree with other's criteria of a song being "good."
Reasoning by Example
You can use reasoning by example in order to find out what instrument a musician loves playing. For example, although a musician may use various instruments in their music, there may be just that one instrument that appears in most of their songs. Vienna Teng's songs shares a variety of instruments. However, from listening to most of her songs, I can reason that she loves playing the piano the most because the piano is mostly played in most of the songs I have listened to. "Gravity," "Eric's Song," and her other songs usually start with the piano or mostly have the piano playing.
Inductive and Deductive Reasoning
We can use deductive reasoning in order to figure out why people write songs. According to most songs, people write about various experiences. In conclusion (through deductive reasoning), I can say that all songs are about experiences. However, in the case of inductive reasoning, we are basically thinking that the premises we make are true. For example, according to what I see, songs are probably written because people like to write about experiences. This is inductive reasoning because I am not using a premises that is provided to me. I am using my own made-up premises (which can also be true).
Reasonings can be used to interpret music. Because of reasoning, many people have different opinions about music. The examples of each reasoning that I listed are basically my interpretation music. In other words, I do not think everyone will have the same interpretations.
- Pink Bean
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ReplyDeleteYour post particularly caught my attention because of my love of music, so I wanted to know what you were going to discuss and say about it. I found your blog post very interesting and helpful all in all. Your examples are fun to read and easy to understand because I can relate to it. I also never thought of using music as a way of explaining the assignments for this class, kudos to you for doing that. I also like how you did not only give excellent examples but also broke the meaning down to something simpler to understand. Great post! Keep it up :)
Good Post for all the different types of examples. This was a great way to stay on focus for one subject for all the examples. Music is a great topic to show this. I liked how you put Vanessa Carlton's lyrics in the post to show an example for sign reasoning. For each one it was well though that you put a description for each example before you go to it. One thing you should included if you wanted to was a little about Hip-Hop music. 2pac Shakur sang and wrote about many of these as long as you listen to it. Great Post, hope to read more from you.
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