Music 1710F/G Lecture Notes - Hear Music, Art Music
5 Feb 2013
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October 26 readings/class notes history (tutorial) (pg 13) Most people today do not have the experience of knowing what it is to transform score into sound and the kind of resistance the work exhibits. Not much improvisation or interpretation during live performances often a copy of the recording. Western art music a physical experience. Listening to a record we cannot know the physical difficulty of performing it. Western art music: translating to score of someone else"s idea into sound, composition and realization. In previous centuries, the only way to hear music was to go out and hear it, or to perform it at your own home: very skilled population. The people would appreciate it in a different way buying an arrangement of it and work through the piece themselves. Everything that we do in performances are a choice whether we realize it or not. Performer must know the score and bring it to life.
