February 2013 Blog Posts (8)

After reading Paul Hindemith's A Composer's World I came to believe that the composer's customer is the musician, and the musician's customer is the audience.

Since we may assume that the composer is herself first and foremost a musician, we can assume that she should know when a piece is in some way satisfying to play. The appropriate audience picks up on that, and the enterprise succeeds.

If she wants mostly to create something satisfying to play, she will keep at it…

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Ok, if you haven't seen this on youtube yet, you really have to! Plus, you get to refresh your memory on how music developed through time etc. You have to watch+listen to it! I think this guy rocks, the way he draw all those pictures. Of course there are so many more composers he could mention, but I think he did a rather good job. What do you think?

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I don't know if you've heard of this one, but during a music analysis class today my friend read it and I have to share it. How funny do you find this joke?

A 'C', an E-flat, and a 'G' go into a bar. The bartender says: "Sorry, but we don't serve minors." So, the E-flat leaves, and the C and the G have an open fifth between them. After a few drinks, the fifth is diminished: the G is out flat. An F comes in and tries to augment the situation, but is not sharp…

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OK ... I HAVE to tackle this subject because I've found that it so often comes up in musical conversation and is massively misunderstood. The usage and avoidance of parallel fifths and parallel octaves. 



My idea is to try and get the basic understanding across of when we do and don't use these devices and most of the reasoning why. As it can be a bit of a touchy subject I had the article double-checked by two musicologists: Maria Antal and Yaiza Varona.…

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