by admin | Feb 6, 2019 | Uncategorized
I define my music, for music fans, as normal music with more dissonance than usual. The added dissonance adds interest to the piece and is used to emphasize emotional moments as well as to serve as a greater contrast to beautiful segments. In Moses, an Oratorio, for...
by admin | Jul 25, 2017 | Uncategorized
With the premiere of my String Quartet, I realized that writing New Music keeps being a big priority for me. It is a great challenge to write music that is accesible, yet fresh, which is what I want to do. I just finished writing a 5 minute work for a group...
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 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...
