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What do you say music that make you feel cheerful? Can I say like

When I work out in the gym, I listen to lilting music, such as rock.

or do you have any other suggestion?
 
    • bosun said:
    What do you say music that make you feel cheerful? Can I say like

    When I work out in the gym, I listen to lilting music, such as rock.

    or do you have any other suggestion?
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    Rock is hardly lilting. Lilting means with a gentle rhythm, not a heavy beat. I think you want something like music with a strong beat (or rhythm).
     
    Can I call that kind of music( which makes people motivate, energizes to work out more) " lilting music?
     
    No, you can call it:

    energizing music
    motivating music

    Lilting music is what you play to daydream, meditate, and relax to.

    If you were doing Yoga exercises, you'd play soothing, lilting music, but that's it.

    Oh, except for your "cool-down" at the end of your workout. The music you'd switch to then would be more of the "lilting" variety.




    AngelEyes
     
    I wonder if you just mean background music. That's music you like to have on when you are doing something, because it makes a tedious job or exercise more relaxing. I suspect not, because you seem to need the rhythmic impectus. I've never heard Angeleyes' two suggestions in BE. I think we'd say something like I play rock as background music.
     
    Thomas,

    The terms I suggested weren't actual names of what we'd call it, but they were types of music using two different adjectives as examples to describe it.

    I'm with you on background music as a term to use in general.

    In bosun's original question, he used lilting in such a way as to describe a type of music, not as a specific name.

    Am I making sense here?


    AngelEyes
     
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