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Letter "C" » composer
«When I speak of the gifted listener, I am thinking of the nonmusician primarily, of the listener who intends to retain his amateur status. It is the thought of just such a listener that excites the composer in me.»
Author: Aaron Copland
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Composer)
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About:
Listening,
Music
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The Listener
«The old idea of a composer suddenly having a terrific idea and sitting up all night to write it is nonsense. Nighttime is for sleeping.»
«The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer.»
«The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on the basis of a pattern that he thinks he can guess, but that he is incapable of wholly divining. If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void. When the composer withholds less, the opposite occurs: he forces us to perform gymnastic exercises more skillful than our own.»
Author: Claude Levi-Strauss
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Philosopher)
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composer,
Delicious,
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gymnastic,
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more or less,
musical,
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skillful,
stable,
The Listener,
The Void,
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torn,
void,
withholds
«What is important for me is finding what the composer wants in the character-what is deep in the character. I see it like an empty house.»
«Wagner is a composer who has beautiful moments but awful quarter hours»
«The aim of music is not to express feelings but to express music. It is not a vessel into which the composer distills his soul drop by drop, but a labyrinth with no beginning and no end, full of new paths to discover, where mystery remains eternal.»
Author: Pierre Boulez
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express feelings,
labyrinth,
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no end,
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«The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.»
«The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do.»