by admin | Nov 17, 2022 | Music appreciation, Thoughts on Music
I have observed that many choirs include arrangements of popular songs in their programs. This has always sparked my curiosity. Having such a broad catalog of works written for choir, why include pop songs in a concert? Well, after some careful thought and...
by admin | Mar 31, 2017 | Music appreciation, Personal experience
In the XXI century, by breaking the conventions and the traditional relations of sounds as used in the XVIII and XIX centuries, sometimes the music seems to go nowhere. There are changes in the music but one is expecting the music to go somewhere in a certain way and...
by admin | Mar 31, 2017 | Music appreciation
This is another dichotomy that is in evidence in the XXI century. While music during the Romantic era tried to appeal to our emotions and to make us feel our humanity, music became more interested in appealing to the intellect in the XX century. Schoenberg and his...
by admin | Mar 31, 2017 | Music appreciation
This is an important dichotomy in order to understand music of the XX century and classical music in general. Many times there is a great simplicity associated with beauty. Some of Beethoven’s most beloved works are simple works, like the piano piece “Fur Elise” or...
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 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...