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Re: Songs for BL (was National Test Piece)

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Subject: Re: Songs for BL (was National Test Piece)
From: Peter <monkey@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 13 Jun 1998 23:59:07 +0800
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Alec Gallagher wrote:

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter <monkey@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: brass-band@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <brass-band@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 12 June 1998 11:15
> Subject: Re: Songs for BL (was National Test Piece)
>
> >Alec Gallagher wrote:
> >
> >> ..........The word music to me should be about conveying emotions.
> >>
> >> Hmm.  So do you discard the likes of Debussy & Ravel, the so-called
> >> 'impressionists', then?
> >
> >No - still emotion in there isn't there?
>
> Erm, well, I'm not sure.  Someone with a better understanding of these
> things can probably explain it better, but I was taught that the romantic
> composers wrote what they felt, while the impressionists wrote what they
> saw, heard etc.

You are correct Alec. But - all music conveys emotion doesn't it? Whether or
not it was written with that intent. Don't you think of ye olde court dances
when listening to Baroque for example?

>  And I'm not sure very much emotion went into the works of
> the renaissance and baroque crowd, much of whose music was strictly
> functional, to play in church, for their patron etc etc.  In other words,
> I'm not at all sure that the last two categories mentioned were actually
> attempting to convey emotion.

As I said - maybe not written intentionally so - butnyou can't help it.

Monkey


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