Leonard Bernstein started his lesson very dramatic. Firstly, he showed what we know about music is wrong. It has given everybody confusion and then everything became more complicated. In the last part of it, finally he showed what music means.
He argued that music is just music. It has no obligation to tell story. Notes cannot express anything. They are just notes to themselves. It is simplification of what we know just like in studio. Something is something, rectangular is just a rectangular, it has no further meanings. It is not a ‘thing’. Let’s get back to the Bernstein’s argument. We can think that some music can represent a story, maybe composer was influenced by a story or painting, but the story can change even if what composer tells us. This is just an extra, explication what we felt during the listening the compose. What gives music a meaning is ‘emotions. Music is movement, flow and changing among the notes. Notes cannot represent anything with themselves, but they could express emotions if they played in order, according to a plan. This is exactly what we are producing in the studio. Firstly, we have something that mean less, and we make some operations on that-according to a plan that we build up with our decisions-. Then something meaningful is appears.
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