tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9617011.post6418559072772104603..comments2024-03-27T23:45:06.093+01:00Comments on Renewable Music: From a Diary I:iiiDaniel Wolfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09093101325234464791noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9617011.post-66477270781944855122011-10-01T22:34:10.510+02:002011-10-01T22:34:10.510+02:00I can't help to but to constantly consider wha...I can't help to but to constantly consider what one loses when one leaves something behind. What tonality and like traditions elsewhere in the world give us an opportunity to do. [The history of this far exceeds any notion of modernism, The Greeks at least] Jung pointed out that there is no life without tension. The breath of experiences is not something we should toss out, because of some promised utopia that after a half century seems too often trivial, if not superficial. Other cultures have dramas that go on for durations that one might never hear or witness it all in ones lifetime. Often the passages of greatest movement are the most transcendental.Kraig Gradyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04234783065045199904noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9617011.post-5514431157764061732011-10-01T06:46:18.799+02:002011-10-01T06:46:18.799+02:00The use of harmonic progressions to build tension...The use of harmonic progressions to build tension - and then resolve it - is music that suggests itself as a sort of journey. The phrases have a beginning, middle and an ending - it starts 'here' and goes 'there'. Kyle Gann wrote on this a couple of years ago and suggested that such music is the child of modern angst: it reinforces the notion that we are trapped between a past we cannot change and a future we cannot control.<br /><br />What music can do - as with chant and, say, cathedral bell-ringing, is to bring the listener to a transcendent state. And maybe that is just better.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com