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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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In Reply to: Never had issues with complex music posted by Penguin on January 22, 2015 at 20:07:02:
Well, actually, I don't much like Tchaikovsky either. Great melodist but his understanding of structure was rudimentary, to say the least. I think he's at is best in relatively unstructured works like the Nutcracker.
I think Mozart's work is far more complex than Bartok's. It's the complexity of genius -- maybe profundity or intellectual depth would be a better word. Or what a professor of mine once referred to as the "density of ideas." A superficially simple work can contain far more information than a superficially complex one.
The curious thing is that you seem to be reacting to some of the very features of Mozart's music that I most love about it! Those rabbit-out-of-the-hat moments seem to me the essence of great music. Anyone can write music that's predictable. To do something that's new and clever and works so brilliantly that you can't imagine how it could have been done differently is a very rare gift. When I hit one of those moments in Mozart, I get chills down my spine. With someone like Wagner, you wait maybe 15 minutes for a great idea. With Mozart, particularly the late Mozart, the flow of ideas is constant. By the time he's reached his peak with Don Giovanni, the flow of genius is so overwhelming that you're held in some kind of trance or rapture for hours. It's hard to imagine what would have happened had he lived, it almost feels like the human mind couldn't survive anything greater. The only other composer who has that effect on me is Bach.
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Follow Ups
- RE: Never had issues with complex music - josh358 07:56:09 01/23/15 (6)
- Well, as they said in "Vertigo", "Mozart's the boy for you!" - Chris from Lafayette 16:04:23 01/25/15 (1)
- RE: Well, as they said in "Vertigo", "Mozart's the boy for you!" - josh358 19:13:07 01/25/15 (0)
- hmm - Penguin 17:33:19 01/23/15 (3)
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