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Questions About Music (Paperback)
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Questions About Music (Paperback)
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"We are asked (to put it politely) for whom we are writing..." From
his perspective as a composer, Roger Sessions discusses some basic
questions raised by the experience of music: what do we mean by
"knowing" a piece of music, or "understanding" it? In what ways is
the relationship between composer and listener different today from
what it was in the past, and what demands can each make on the
other? Music, like all nonverbal arts and certainly like
mathematics and some branches of science, has its own dialectic,
which is not that of words at all." Mr. Sessions warns against the
pitfalls of metaphorical terms used to describe music, and explores
the nature of musical form and communication. It is the quality and
character of the musical gesture that constitutes the essence of
the music...." He discusses the performer, why his role is
inestimably important, and why the "definitive performance" is a
legend we can dispense with. The conception itself is a musical
image, and in bringing it to fuller realization, the composer is
not pursuing a line of reasoning, but producing an object." Two
chapters on composition offer an illuminating view of how a
composer's mind works, how a musical idea takes shape and logically
develops, what a musical train of thought is like. The willing ear
does not imply an undiscriminating ear, but the contrary: only a
willing ear is a genuinely discriminating one." Mr. Sessions
addresses the question of criteria and how the listener makes
judgments about a piece of music. Concerning the new and
experimental music now being written, he summarizes his own views
in Mahler's comment, "The younger generation is always right."
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