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It sounds fun vs. It sounds like fun.

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Is there any difference between the sentences "It sounds like fun" and "It sounds fun"? — Dide, South Korea

Answer

No, there is no real difference between these sentences. They are both correct, and they mean the same thing.

This is because of the unusual qualities of the word fun. Fun is unusual because it can behave as either an adjective or a noun, with virtually the same meaning: (something that is) amusing and enjoyable.

In the sentence "It sounds fun," fun is an adjective that means amusing and enjoyable. In the sentence “It sounds like fun,” fun is a noun meaning something that is amusing and enjoyable.

The pairs of sentences below are also identical in meaning:

That looks fun. = That looks like fun.
It seemed fun. = It seemed like fun.
It feels fun to travel on my own. = It feels like fun to travel on my own.

What does fun. "We Are Young" Sound Like ?

Posted on May 10, 2012 by keith — 118 Comments ↓

“We Are Young” by fun. has been driving me and a lot of people crazy. I’m still not able to put my finger on it but I am offering up these bits. Let me know if you have any others. I’m dying to know. Am I nuts?

fun. - "We Are Young (Chorus)" (2011)

Thompson Twins - "Hold Me Now" (1983)

Erasure - "A Little Respect" (1988)

This part is so similar to a Queen song. Bohemian Rhapsody? Is it a different song?? Let’s get to the bottom of this!

fun. - "We Are Young (Pre-Chorus)" (2011)

Queen - "Bohemian Rhapsody" (1975)

Tell me what you think in the comments

UPDATE 7/26/2012: I added a post for Paul Simon “Cecilia” (1970) vs fun. “Some Nights” since there have been few comments and submissions for it.

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An example of different moods in the same melody

The principle "it is better to see once than to hear a hundred times" is not suitable in our case. An article about sound, but with pictures instead of sound, this is nonsense. Although many musical articles on the Internet sin with just such an approach.

We will use an online sequencer to listen. In it, you can change the scale of the piano roll with the mouse wheel, you can select a track in the list on the left, you can drag the workspace with the mouse. The most important button is Play in the upper left corner.

Here is the famous Jingle Bells. This is a major melody, it sounds like this:

The same melody, but in a minor key:

Even a child can immediately say that the melody is the same, but the first version is cheerful, and the second is sad.

What does this say? This suggests that the emotional perception of music is objective. It does not depend on the listener.

How humans perceive sounds

The brain of animals works like a difference machine.

It doesn't matter to a monkey how much green is in the color of a banana. But to find out on which of the two trees the bananas are greener, in order to choose which one to climb - this is already a matter of survival.

This applies to all senses, including hearing. A person, like any animal, can easily hear the difference between two sounds.

Usually the musical relationship between sounds of different pitches is explained like this:

very interesting, but nothing is clear.

A more mundane explanation - a person perfectly hears the components of the sound harmonics.

... an oscillating (sounding) body vibrates not only along its entire length, but also in all parts, which generates additional harmonics that add up to the main wave
... generated overtones are quieter [source not specified 190 days], so how, in addition to the frequency of oscillations, there is also the concept of their scope, amplitude - loudness

https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonica_(music)

Consider the effect of harmonics on the example of a conventional guitar. It is convenient because the string can be measured with a regular ruler and check the calculations on a calculator.

As you can see from the picture, the largest (and loudest) pieces of the string correspond to certain frets on the fretboard.

For example, 2/3 of the string would fit the 7th nut. And two sounds, one of which has a frequency of 2/3 lower than the second, will be perceived by the human ear "together".

The more large pieces of a vibrating body (strings) coincide in two sounds, the more "similar", "coinciding", "consonant" they look to a person.

Apparently, this connection was fixed in the course of evolution. it is vital for animals to determine by ear whether this is a sound source or several different ones.

Physics of Music Theory

If the guitar neck is evenly divided by nut so that 2/3, 3/4, etc. can be taken from each nut, we get 12 nut per octave (i.e. half of the string):

I - tonic - 1/1
II - Minor second - 24/25
II - Majoric second - 8/9
III - Minor 9000 9000
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III - Major Terision - 4/5
IV - Quarter - 3/4
Triton - 32/45
V - Kvinta - 2/3
VI - Minor Sexta - 5 /8
VI - major sixth - 3/5
VII - minor septa - 5/9
VII - major septa - 8/15
The following octave - 1/2

Why in half the guitar strings of the thresholds on the vulture 12, and there are only 7 notes in music?

Large parts in 1/2, 1/3 and 1/4 are loud, perceived very closely with the main frequency of the main, low sound.

Look at the intervals 4/5 and 5/6 (i.e. the third). They are large enough, which means they are loud and well distinguishable by ear. But their frequencies are close to each other.
This means that they affect a person in a similar way. But the one that is lower in frequency, minor ("smaller"), makes the music "sad", and major ("large"), high - cheerful.

Why?

A larger body produces lower sounds (eg an elephant or a waterfall). And a smaller body makes higher sounds (a mouse or a murmur of a stream).

Even a frog understands that everything big is bad, it is potentially dangerous. Anything small is good, you can eat it. The brain correlates the major and minor thirds in a melody with positive and negative emotions according to the same principle, this is laid down at the level of reflexes.

The same applies to intervals per second, sixth and sept. But their harmonics are much quieter than the main ones and may simply not be regarded as full-fledged in the melody.

Influence of minor sounds on harmony

Minor harmonics can be considered using the tritone interval as an example. It always sounds bad. very far from matching the main tone. These are pieces in 1/45 of the main tone, an order of magnitude smaller and quieter than the main ones.

This is how Jingle Bells sounds if all fifths are replaced by tritones (in textbooks this is called the "Locrian" mode):

the melody is recognizable, but it sounds somehow tense, unnatural.

Total

Music theory is based on physics and anatomy.

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