- Nov 07, 2020
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- Nov 07, 2020
Today each composer is not only involved in aesthetics, but he's actually trying to create his own language.
- Lose
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- Nov 07, 2020
The danger of that - and there's a grave danger that I, myself, have to be very aware of - is that you become so involved and intrigued in the language that sometimes you lose track that that is only a means to an aesthetic experience that the listener has to get.
- Arts
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of all the arts, music is really the most abstract.
- Next
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- Nov 07, 2020
Now, there are sometimes making a connection between one section and another that sometimes you do want to see the pattern because it helps you to lead into the next thing - it's a rhetorical thing, where you just see how the pattern has to go into the next thing.
- Satisfaction
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was speaking about communicating, I meant that the listener - we have to reach the listener; otherwise, of course, you're writing the piece, as I say, only for the satisfaction of seeing it on the paper for yourself, and then it ends right there.
- Not Talking
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- Nov 07, 2020
Now, what we are not talking about, what you're really coming to, is what compromises one makes so that the listener understands somewhat of what you're doing, what you're trying to express.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
You write it down because finally, when it's written down you do get it out of your system somewhat.
- Improvisation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Improvisation is terribly haphazard.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
A person improvising is sometimes very fortunate that just at that second things coincide.
- Distrust
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- Nov 07, 2020
I distrust anything that you don't hear.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because essentially Schoenberg was an extremely gifted man. And in spite of many of his theories and so on, when he really began to write music, he still was guided very much by his internal hearing, by what we call your internal ear.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
We can use techniques in modifying things, in controlling things, but the first impulse has to be something that you simply cannot make just out of technique, or else it becomes perfectly evident that it is nothing but technique that you're exercising.
- Difference
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- Nov 07, 2020
The difference between the student and the born composer is he really hears the thing, and they have to stage it and manipulate it by technical equipment.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
By the way, the point between rationality and what we would call the irrational is a very difficult point to establish. There's no specific line, as you know.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
No, I think that a person writes a poem because they have an inner urge of something that they want to express, and I think it's that inner urge that you want to express when you write a piece of music.
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, no. I believe that it's not at all impossible that some of the performances that I've heard so far by some pianists may be superior to my own playing because those are two totally different acts altogether.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020