by admin | Mar 31, 2017 | Music appreciation
I am going to continue my meditations on music and on a framework to understand it better. I was going to abandon them but I will finish them before embarking on something else. I have put a lot of thought a lot about what the opposite of melody is, or what I could...
by admin | Jul 8, 2016 | Personal experience
Before I continue to explain my framework to describe music, I have to share something that happened to me three days ago. I was composing a prayer for Sinai Temple, a cantorial, very tonal, piece, and I decided to look into the last piano pieces I composed before I...
by admin | Jul 4, 2016 | Music appreciation
So why would a composer abandon beauty in a musical composition? Here we get to the second dichotomy in music: Interesting-Boring. If a composer used a very beautiful chord and repeated it 20 times, even if it was the most beautiful chord in the world, your mind would...
by admin | Jul 1, 2016 | Music appreciation
The first dichotomy we will use when talking about music is ugliness-beauty. This is a very important dichotomy in all the arts, as the achievement of beauty has long been a goal of artists. However, as Plato said: “Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder”. I have...
by admin | May 5, 2016 | Music appreciation
Music is a complex subject. How can we understand it fully without studying it professionally? I’m talking about classical music, of course, or as they call it in Latin-American countries, “serious music”. Of course, the more you know, the easier it...
