Creativity and originality are the most important aspects of making music is a myth? (Article Excerpt)
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- Rad Grandad
- 38041 posts since 6 Sep, 2003 from Downeast Maine
please keep in mind we have hpc for such posts
The highest form of knowledge is empathy, for it requires us to suspend our egos and live in another's world. It requires profound, purpose‐larger‐than‐the‐self kind of understanding.
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- KVRian
- 807 posts since 7 Aug, 2015 from H2O
I saw Dave Alvin in '98 or '99 (or so) touring, probably, on Blackjack David. It was a small club - the Tractor Tavern in Ballard (Seattle), and he played the most gorgeous, original midtempo songs - don't know the names of any particular ones, which received a so-so applause, but when he went into a typical 1-4-5 blues-riffed song (not a hit/single) that sounded like every other fricking 1-4-5 blues-riffed song, the crowd went wild. I'm still so highly disappointed every time I think back on that realization that the typical "crowd" wants to hear something familiar-sounding.
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- KVRAF
- 4727 posts since 25 Mar, 2006 from The city by the bay
For me the problem lies in trying to avoid ignoring the different realms that are affected by creative music (and art in general).
An example, as usual full of subjective elements.
Say we were living back around the time of the French Revolution. Leaving aside for a moment the Mozart vs Salieri idea that's been around since at least the time of Pushkin, it may be fair to say that we serious music lovers might have preferred this bit of music from Gluck's famous 1762 opera Orfeo and Eurydice:
to the revolutionary ending of Mozart's Don Giovanni:
But when we listen to the works of the great composers of the 19th century (despite the likelihood that they probably loved Gluck's works), the significant influence of Mozart's operas is obvious.
For example, from Beethoven's Fidelio:
Creativity and originality IMHO have always mattered.
An example, as usual full of subjective elements.
Say we were living back around the time of the French Revolution. Leaving aside for a moment the Mozart vs Salieri idea that's been around since at least the time of Pushkin, it may be fair to say that we serious music lovers might have preferred this bit of music from Gluck's famous 1762 opera Orfeo and Eurydice:
to the revolutionary ending of Mozart's Don Giovanni:
But when we listen to the works of the great composers of the 19th century (despite the likelihood that they probably loved Gluck's works), the significant influence of Mozart's operas is obvious.
For example, from Beethoven's Fidelio:
Creativity and originality IMHO have always mattered.
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- KVRian
- 502 posts since 3 Feb, 2018
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