[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Listening to music (was: To BL or not to BL)

To: <brass-band@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Listening to music (was: To BL or not to BL)
From: "Alec Gallagher" <alec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2000 17:23:04 -0000
Priority: low
Reply-to: brass-band@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Younghusband <monkey@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: brass-band@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <brass-band@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 14 January 2000 20:36
Subject: To BL or not to BL

>I'm afraid I don't conform to the school of 'if you listen enough times,
you'll
>get to like it.' Surely a good piece of music will make at least a slight
impact
>after a couple of hearings?

It depends on *how* you listen to a piece as well, doesn't it?  If you
listen to it just for its superficial qualities (and there's nothing wrong
with that) then you'll get a certain level of enjoyment out of it.  And
indeed, many pieces only exist in the superficial plane.  But there are many
others which have hidden depths, and you have to listen many times before
you discover them.  And of course it helps if you know the circumstances in
which the piece was written.  Shostakovich 5 (last movement) is a good
example.  And why is Grieg's 'Spring' (so familiar to bandsmen),  which
ought to be full of the joys of its title, so  melancholy?!

Alec

--

Follow-Ups:
- Re: Listening to music (was: To BL or not to BL)
  - From: Dafydd y garreg wen

Prev by Date: Re: Visiting England
Next by Date: Re: To BL or not to BL
Previous by thread: Re: Visiting England
Next by thread: Re: Listening to music (was: To BL or not to BL)
Index(es):
- Date
- Thread