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Post Subject: ItPosted by op.9 on: 1/25/2008
Buy the way, since you discover
“it” in Janacek then did you begin to be more sensitive to the similar
“it” in other composers/compositions?
Of course. I find when I discover a new 'it' - I then find/feel it all
over the place. And as a complete Haydn nut, I think I've seen new
meanings for some of his 'folksy' ways too - after immersing myself in
Janacek's 'on an overgrown path' (a huge great towering masterpeice!)
Great music works on us backward and forwards.
'The reason I asked because I have
big theory that “it” was not composed but rather was “heard”. It goes
along well with Tarkovsky views of discontinuity of experiences…
I'll have to read this Tarkovsky chap - can you point me to an article?
Of course, no meaning can be 'composed' - all music comes alive form
the new moment of relisation, and has new meaning derived from this
new, instantaneous performer/listener/environment/state of the world
combination. Our experience/knowledge/emotional-knowledge are
necessarily completely different both from the those of the composer,
and from when we heard/performed the piece the last time. Even the
musical logic of the piece (which IS composed) appears to be ever changing
to an alive musician/listener. Janacek turns rhetorical logic on
its head, often compressing it, (is he the most compressed composer
after Webern and some of Beethoven?) and even making harmony make us
feel what we shouldn't!
It worries me that we're not talking about Stravinsky
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