Star Trek minutia

[ivyfic]

On the official website for Star Trek, on the character profile for Uhura, it says that she sings in the Starfleet Chorale. This led to some discussion on...I don't even remember who's lj about whether Spock would go to her concerts (the consensus was, yes, he would). Then someone commented that Spock would love Bach and Uhura would love Mozart.

Well, Bach makes some sense, seeing as he's highly mathematical, but I see Spock more liking some of the late modernists, like Schonberg or Dallapiccola. Composers who were all about deconstructing traditional views of harmony, who picked apart intervals, built their music straight from acoustics without paying attention to tonal centers. Stuff that sounds like chaos when you listen to it, but is actually highly regimented and delves into the depths of what makes up music. You know, the type of music that you can only experience on an intellectual level, cause god knows it sounds like nails on a chalkboard. Or I could see him really enjoying something like Terry Riley's "In C," for its focus on minute changes in notes and rhythm and its meditative quality.

And I see Uhura loving the romantics, like Brahms.

And them having heated arguments about this. (Shut up! It amuses me to think about fictional characters' musical preferences!)

Comments

[ecmyers.livejournal.com]

Well, Spock actually plays a Vulcan lyre, so you can judge his musical tastes quite easily. He also jams with some space hippies, so his preferences may be suspect.

[moonlightalice.livejournal.com]

We're not there yet! (Lord...)