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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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In Reply to: Art and music: can non-intellectuals appreciate post-19th century music posted by tinear on March 11, 2011 at 10:59:41:
And if they were, it is surprising that the music of the orient, the middle east and so on has not developed along the same lines as that of Austria and Germany. Our "western" sense of harmony is a historically developed thing. Tonic, fifths, fourths, thirds major and minor, augmentations, diminutions all gradually make their appearance over centuries. The only reason the great classical composers sound so natural to you is that you have been trained to hear them so. Fact is, you DO understand the inner workings of those compositions which you admire.
Other cultures evidence other "nature".
Secondly, I can't speak for Mozart, but much in Bach and Chopin is knotty and thorny - they develop tension by the judicious use of dissonance. Only we've heard it so often that we cease to hear it.
True, much post-1900 music goes further, and can appear to be mere noise. (And that's been said in earlier times, too.) But "I don't get from this what I get from [insert name]" is not a valid criticism - if you want the [insert name] experience, best listen to him then (it WILL be a him). It's no use hoping for a return to some supposed golden age.
We have to leave our preconceptions of how music should progress at the door. When we can do this, there are many rewarding experiences in store.
This said, there's a lot of dross been cranked out by folk armed only with a theory, an academic appointment and cloth ears in the past 110 years. But it has been ever thus.
And I'd not be thinking that there ever was or will be a time when the serious pursuit of music - whether as listener or performer - was more than the interest of the few.
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Follow Ups
- I think you're assuming that classical harmony & melody are somehow innately natural - k-k-k-kenny 15:53:37 03/11/11 (6)
- RE: I think you're assuming that classical harmony & melody are somehow innately natural - Tadlo 05:52:34 03/12/11 (1)
- Touché - k-k-k-kenny 17:56:09 03/12/11 (0)
- May I offer a different perspective? - John Marks 16:54:54 03/11/11 (3)
- Of course you may, John - k-k-k-kenny 21:26:21 03/11/11 (2)
- "Those who play and habitually listen to these things don't seem to notice the gross errors…" - David Aiken 23:14:28 03/11/11 (1)
- Couldn't agree more - k-k-k-kenny 17:33:23 03/12/11 (0)
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