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In the Thread: Thinking about Bruckner harmonies.

Post Subject: BrucknerPosted by Romy the Cat on: 2/15/2012

If cause music has meaning. Music without meaning is just sounds. Whatever meaning a listener perception has managed to develop is the meaning of music.

I guess I do not listen Bruckner music like this as I do not recognize the steady of not steady rhythmic organizations, brass chorales or etc… I do not recognize the ultra slow or ultra soft values of the Bruckner’s expression as some kind of stand-by mode between the eruptions. To me it is all the past of the whole experience. It is like making love to a woman you love – the moment of ejaculation are nice but dally experience might be as gratifying, if you in love. To me Bruckner is about subordination, the subordination of listening will and listening ego to mightier force. I do not talk about God but rather about the different force that Bruckner music conceives. BTW, I do not take word "playful" in context of Bruckner as light-hearted. To my mind the superiority of Bruckner harmonies is so far more advanced then my mind that it does create some playfulness, similar to how a lion or tiger do not kill a small rabbit and juts plays with it just because it is not truly a noble pray or something that will not feed her anyways….

Do you want to realize the playfulness of Bruckner and to feel yourself a rabbit? Try to sing the Bruckner symphonies. I do it all time what I am along and I am telling you that it is imposable to own the Bruckner harmonies – Bruckner is always find ways to be million steps above you and you suddenly recognize who is who. This very personal feeling that are participating in this beauty but can’t own this beauty is so addictive! Here is where my damn Russky masochism hit me again….

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