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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:
Above average...possibly.
I love and appreciate a lot of 20th-21st century music and a lot of contemporary art (hardly all). I am musically trained, an amateur musician and former organist and choral singer. I consider myself above average, but I'm hardly an intellectual.
It is probably easier to approach Berg and Ives with some musical knowledge, but that's no guarantee of appreciation or enthusiasm for the thornier music of 20th/21st century. With Mahler, who is in fact quite tuneful, it is more a question of focus and stamina.
There's some purely brainy stuff from the middle of the 20th century that I've played, understand the theory of, I don't care for, and will never listen to OR play again.
There is loads of "accessible" modern music, I mean LOADS. We've had lists and lists of them in this forum. How tough is Bartok, really?? Barber? Bernstein? Corigliano? Higdon? Adams? Rouse? Paart? For heavens sake, rock'n rollers were listening to John Cage, Terry Riley et al back in the 60s and 70s.
From the arid extremes of the recent past the pendulum has swung the other way and some of the best known contemporary composers are tuneful, if not necessarily in a "pretty" way. Their music has drama, rhythm, tunes etc...and BTW, lots of people respond to film soundtracks, so why not to neo-romatic music? IMO the music that lasts will appeal to listeners in some way on an emotional or visceral level.
And from my experience in concert halls over the past 20 years I'd say there is plenty of modern music that people really do respond to and like. One of the problems IMO is that people need to hear new pieces more often, to get the music in their heads to truly identify with it. new pieces get programmed once a season, and they ought to be played more often.
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