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Re: Songs for BL (was National Test Piece)

Alec Gallagher wrote:

> .............  There is no such
> thing as good or bad music - only music you like or music you don't like, to
> whatever degree.

Fair point there Alec- I would agree. but.........

> Inevitably, the more challenging examples of contemporary music require a
> greater degree of concentration from the listener, and for some, even most,
> people, it is easier to discard it as 'junk' rather than make the effort to
> apply their mind to it and try to understand and, yes, even enjoy it.

Agreed. IMHO though, if such 'music' requires such intent research - is it 'real
music?' The word music to me should be about conveying emotions. As a music
teacher I have done topics with kids that are based on listening to music and
discussing what kind of picture / scene is created in their minds. the idea of
Program Music if you are familiar.

I nearly always find that the overall picture created by 30 kids can be put in
the same category - such as happy, sad, spring day etc........ the actual
pictures described by individuals however will possibly be different. the point
being though that they all come under the same banner.

>  For
> those who do make the effort, however, a whole new world of sound opens up.

Seems to me though, and again this is my HO and I am sure I will be shot down,
but people who do get into that seem to disappear up their own you know what.
Same as modern art. People might look at that and start discussing between them
just how wonderful it is when really, they don't want to let face down with each
other. they are just going along with it if you like.

Now anybody who knows me, will know that I have never really been one for going
with the follow. If I've got something to sat then I'll say it!

> It isn't as if this type of music is new - Schoenberg, Webern and all that
> crowd were doing far more radical things eighty-odd years ago.  But sadly
> such activities impinged little upon the
> conservative world of bands.

But writing music by numbers and the pattern of raindrops on a window does not
seem to be quite as pleasing on the ear as music constructed in the traditional
manner to me. Does that not say something about writing simply beacuse of a
totally external influence - nothing to do with music at all.

Come on then - who's first with the arrow?

Monkey


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