Andrew Stiller wrote:
On May 25, 2007, at 9:19 AM, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote:
And so it is at the heart of answering the prosaic question of why
music as
art differs from music as commerce. There is only one moment of
transformation, one pivot-point, that belongs to a work of art.
Fascinating. I have always thought about it oppositely: that a pop tune
gives up all its secrets on one listening, whereas with a classical
piece there are often new insights with every hearing.
While I agree with Andrew about music as art giving up new insights on
repeated listenins, I can also understand Dennis's point -- I have found
that there is some moment, one pivot point at which I pass from the
merely curious response to the enthralled response to a work of art.
And there is no way of predicting when that will happen -- for some it
happens very early on, even on first listening, for others it happens
after many different hearings, and for some it never happens. And for
those works of art which don't even evoke the merely curious response,
they don't get a second listen usually, there being so many others to
move onto.
Music as commerce has to get that enthralled response (shallow as it
often is in commercial music, although there is a lot of commercial
music which is not shallow) right off the bat or it doesn't get much
commercial response (i.e. sales.)
But I have also found with music as art that for some works there comes
a time when repeated listenings yield no new insights. Then it becomes
drive-time music on a local classical music radio station.
--
David H. Bailey
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