Chuck Israels wrote:
[snip]>> They sound like regular violins to me. Suppose I write
something and I
use violins KS, violins pizz. and violins arco, what is happening in
the final version? Finale will put everything on one stave, right
(everything else would be ridiculous)?
As for musical news, I cannot get over it. I bought a CD today with
music of Nicola Lefanu, a British composer/professor of composition.
Technically it's all perfectly written, but by god, this is boring stuff!
This could open up a discussion of what makes non-boring music, and I'd
have strong opinions on the matter. There is a lot of music that is
supported by academic institutions that speaks only to others playing
the same musical game, and a large portion of it leaves me cold,
sometimes even offended, and I have no time for that. Still every now
and then, I discover something I really like.
[snip]
And it is important for anybody entering such a discussion to realize
that there isn't any one monolithic reaction to or use for music in
various people's lives. What one person finds boring, another may find
relaxing instead. And what one person finds exciting another may find
grating and annoying.
That's what makes music such a wonderful art -- each of us gets a truly
personal reaction to what we hear and can't ever expect that anybody
else, even someone standing right next to us, is hearing (or paying
attention, conscious or unconscious, to) the same things we're hearing.
Another thing to consider is that the physical sensations of hearing
music live are quite different from hearing it recorded, just as looking
at a picture of the Grand Canyon can in no way reproduce the sensation
of actually standing on the rim and viewing it in person.
But listening to a CD can certainly help us to decide (for good or ill)
whether we want to actually go out of our way to hear that same music
live, so it is unfortunate when we have a negative reaction to recorded
music. We'll never know if we might have liked it had we heard it in
person.
Then again, life is way too short to be able to hear every piece ever
written, so recordings can help us to sort out what we want to put more
time and energy into. This may be a bad thing but I certainly have way
too little time to put more energy into music which moves me in a
negative way or which doesn't move me at all.
Obviously somebody liked that music, though, or they wouldn't have
wasted money recording it! :-)
--
David H. Bailey
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