A displaced Californian composer writes about music made for the long while & the world around that music. ~ The avant-garde is flexibility of mind. — John Cage ~ ...composition is only a very small thing, taken as a part of music as a whole, and it really shouldn't be separated from music making in general. — Douglas Leedy ~ My God, what has sound got to do with music! — Charles Ives
Sunday, January 08, 2017
A Note on Accompaniment
Why is it assumed that an accompaniment runs simultaneously with the
thing it's accompanying? When an adult accompanies a child to an event or the zoo,
say, or someone walks with a another person — or maybe a pet — on a
walk through a park or shopping mall, the accompaniment can be side by side or one ahead of the other. (Indeed, in crowded spaces, single file may be the rule rather than side-by-side.)
So why not more pieces in which the thing and its accompaniment are not
simultaneous, but just proximate, in the same neighborhood, keeping an
ear or eye out for the other? I could imagine a solo performed in the
first half of a concert with its accompaniment bopping in late in the
second half, for example... they're still attached, just on a longer
leash.
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