Aaron Copland book, What to Listen for in Music, seems helpful to me because it explained music, and where music comes from through the eyes of the composer.
His essay creates the foundation for an scientifical musical appreciation, beginning with basics as harmony, melodies , and pattern. It also has implicitly caused me to start asking some questions when I'm listening to a piece of music.
Aaron Copland classifies and discusses three levels of listening to music : sensuous place, expressive plane, and the sheerly musical plane. I believe by this machinery separation, Copland succeeds in classifying difficult topic, so characteristic that most people tend to pass it. He uses proportion and sometimes stresses on certain condition where these planes are abused …show more content…
The existing structure of the music as such the duration of the note, step, balance, and tone color are emphasized in this part of the essay. This fundamental study of the structure is a must to form a having a solid foundation in the musical segment and to realize the diagnosis of it. This technical and more theoretical plane is inconsistent to the philosophical sensuous plane. consequently, it is another good technique of Copland to set down one right after another to cover the entire listening process. from this statement, I think that there is an unpleasant emotion caused by the losing the expressive plane, if this situation triggers. On the other hand, we have the public listener. Listeners frequently neglect them. He discuss that a good listener must know the musical structure in order to raise the pleasure of music on this plane.
Conclusion
Copland emphasizes the fact that he wants the readers to hold a clearer vision of the listening process, which he successfully divided it in order to cite evidence in support his idea. The purpose of his essay are marked by the precise division of the
aforesaid
His essay creates the foundation for an scientifical musical appreciation, beginning with basics as harmony, melodies , and pattern. It also has implicitly caused me to start asking some questions when I'm listening to a piece of music.
Aaron Copland classifies and discusses three levels of listening to music : sensuous place, expressive plane, and the sheerly musical plane. I believe by this machinery separation, Copland succeeds in classifying difficult topic, so characteristic that most people tend to pass it. He uses proportion and sometimes stresses on certain condition where these planes are abused …show more content…
The existing structure of the music as such the duration of the note, step, balance, and tone color are emphasized in this part of the essay. This fundamental study of the structure is a must to form a having a solid foundation in the musical segment and to realize the diagnosis of it. This technical and more theoretical plane is inconsistent to the philosophical sensuous plane. consequently, it is another good technique of Copland to set down one right after another to cover the entire listening process. from this statement, I think that there is an unpleasant emotion caused by the losing the expressive plane, if this situation triggers. On the other hand, we have the public listener. Listeners frequently neglect them. He discuss that a good listener must know the musical structure in order to raise the pleasure of music on this plane.
Conclusion
Copland emphasizes the fact that he wants the readers to hold a clearer vision of the listening process, which he successfully divided it in order to cite evidence in support his idea. The purpose of his essay are marked by the precise division of the
aforesaid