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Post Subject: Re: Inquiring musicPosted by AOK_Farmer on: 1/23/2005
Ant,
For every individual the cause of this experience of dialog is possibly very different.
For myself it is not so much the performance, for reasons it will be easy to see, but the composer and more closely the period when the composer lived and the type of composition.
The center of my musical universe are a triad, and all have to do primarily with religious music. First in the early 1600's in northern Germany with Sweelinck and Schutz, second in Italy in the mid 1600's with Carissimi and Cavalli and lastly in France around 1700 with Francois Couperin. This was a great trasition period for sacred music in europe and when these pieces are played I am captivated.
This is music composed 100 years before Bach (under great Italian influences) and there are not a lot of performances availiable. But I have found that the performance is not what speaks to me but rather it is the actual music itself. Perhaps if I had more performaces aviliable I could be more selective.
Oddly, a trio of contemporary (for me) keyboard composers whose music I feel very strongly about are the solo piano works of Chopin, Field and Medtner. Again it seems to have little to do with the performance (which is one reason I dont post here much as this seems a mor performance driven site).
Chopin was my first love, so to speak, and somehow there is much in him that is in the early composers in my 'triad'. I cant explain this. But I could barbarically say that there is something of Chopin, Field and Medtner in Glinka and some later Russians. In fact, to my ear, and to make a great *leap of faith*, Tchaikovsky bears some strong resemblance to Carissimi. I am getting off track...
So I think that the causes of this musical dialog are very individual. For me it's very much composition driven and not the interpretation of the composition. It may be that I am not demanding enough of the music and so my dialog is not as deep as it could be. I dont believe this but I offer it as a distinct possibility. And the fact that there are few interpretations of much of this early music may also lead me to my position.
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