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Re: Classical appreciation (or a lack of it?)

Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2023-10-22 02:45

The broader appreciation is with the structure itself of more complex music. Simpler musical forms (and by their nature, shorter in length) feature limited harmonic variance. There are a lot of creative and delightful ways to express limited harmonic development found in a 3-5 minute pop song, country song, jazz number etc. That isn't to say it is any less valid as music, just that it is less complex. I would contrast that against a symphony of Bruckner's where you travel through a very complicated series of keys that themselves have their own meaning before the elliptical journey comes to a conclusion back to where it started an hour prior. Or there is Wagner's ability to constantly have you "standing on one leg" for twenty minutes as overture of his seems to be on the "fifth of....." some key at any given moment.

I find more that more complicated and wonderous things can happen within longer and more thoughtful structures. Of course you don't need a long work to encapsulate the human condition. I was listening to Eric Satie's 6 Gnossiesnnes the other day and was blown away at how much can be said with so few notes in such a short time (each by itself of course).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3c_RU2NcJ9c

...............Paul Aviles

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