22. März 2017
Debussy's rhythm-textures are made to create sound textures, which gain their force through the impact of articulation. An articulation of sound in patterns or pattern-like melodies query the dominance of a pulse-related system consisting in bars and meters. A system which also ties the melodic structures strictly to those meters: even if syncopated rhythms were composed to create tension and conflict between melodies and meters, the conflict is their to be solved in a confirmation of the...
11. August 2016
Music is sound. Sound is a consequence of articulation (of an instrument's sound-source or a voice). Articulation of sound means expression and initiation of time. Time has one of its origins in the articulation of sound. Thus sound is an instrument to initiate time. There is a special relation between sound and articulation which leads us to the possibility of perceiving a rhythm. Rhythm is the result of articulated sound, if it is perceivable in a shaped and regular way. Patterns and accents...
14. Juni 2016
Nowadays nobody would claim that music without vocals and lyrics does not make sense. the average listener seems to be able to refer to musical parameters like rhythm, melody or sound and harmony, if he wants to listen to any kind of music without words. But how is it possible, that a rhythm-pattern or a melody phrase is "under-standable"? Our perception has learned to summarize different acoustical sounds, which have appeared to us in almost any kind of special and regular ways, forming...
08. Dezember 2015
What play does a musician play as an interpreter of a musical composition of the classical music's culture? Is it about expressing his own role in a determined cultural play about obviously old-fashioned musical styles? Or is it even still possible to speak about the musical 'self' with all attached emotions, like in Pop and Jazz? And could this interpreter do so in aiming at a brilliantly witty version of the interpreted composition? Or is a non-trivial self-expression only the result of...
22. November 2015
In a master piece of classical music's repertoire normally the most crucial parameters of the music are notated. The notation system provided the composer with graphic signs to pass on his ideas to coming generations. These signs can be ususally read without too much misinterpretation of the composer's will. With regard to these "terms of business", what parameters of musicality remain to be executed by the pro musicians, who are trained to perform the well-known music in a perfected way and...
01. November 2015
Once, a well known piano professor in Germany commented on his student's struggles to interpret a composition of the classical music's repertoire: "Just let the music play itself.." What a sentence. The composed music must be able to play itself. It doesn't need to much interpretation because its melodies and rhythms, its harmonies and sound textures are strong enough to sound perfectly, without some added marks of interpretation? Well, the aesthetic approach of this professor surely was, to...
10. Juni 2015
The exciting relation between chance and determination used to be an issue of discussion in the avantgarde music scene of the 60’ties. Composers were “addicted“ to complex structures. An ensured and understandable perception for listeners was not a point of much consideration for them. Complexity was estimated as an ultimate truth for itself, no matter if anyone could grasp what they had notated in their scores. The so-called serialism and aleatoric were the two opposite points of...
03. Juni 2015
Is our culture shallow? Yes, of course it is. Day by day we face pure superficialness, because it is the surface area where we learn about any cultural things. And these things have to sparkle like diamonds to be discovered by us. We want things to sparkle, because then we are more happy and satisfied. That is a crucial part of our biology. Animals have to tout for their courtship display, using only the best they could develop in their evolution - just to be more showy. So, the surface is the...
25. Mai 2015
Music, which has been composed to be performed by professional musicians, must be notated in a complex system of figures. The figures must be decoded and transformed into sounds of music. This process of transformation is necessarily a process of invention. It is not a search for an ultimate truth, possibily contained in the codes of the score or a tracking for any intentions of the deceased composer. There my be stylistic rules for musical interpretation, which has been researched by...
