Saturday, February 26, 2011
Compositions
Yes! I have included all the disney tunes I wanted in my composition. But, I'm not really creative when it comes to figuring out embellishments and other composition techniques when it comes to composing. If anyone has any ideas please list them below. One of my biggest fears when it comes to composing is too much dissonance. I can't stand hearing some modern music today that is so mind bobbling and so dissonant. But, there were compositions in the past that brought so much riot and are now part of the staple repeitiore in professional orchestras. Take Stravinsky's Rite of Spring for example. When it was premired in 1913 the audience broke out into a riot. Saint Saens stormed out when he heard the opening bassoon solo, saying "That is not how to use the bassoon". Here is the spot where the audience went ballistic http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phIRRINOF-M&feature=related. It's one of my favorite parts of the piece. My point is now today Rite of Spring is one of the most famous pieces. It is also one of my favorite pieces. I heard the Philadelphia Orchestra play it this summer in Saratoga at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center on opening night. It was incredible. All those dissonances really are not so terrible to the hear they can actually make the listner excited. Leonard Bernstein commented "it's also got the best dissonances anyone ever thought up, and the best asymmetries and polytonalities and polyrhythms and whatever else you care to name." So all that music we hear today wondering and saying to ourselves "that's music" may become famous a couple decades later.
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