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These are two things at the very margins of music… In front of us is an extensive repertoire of excellent music, including a number of master works, all accessible and free to get to know and to experience. What I meant, is that it is not the case that there are only two options: on one hand, sonic art parading as music (undigestible as music but OK as sonic art), and on the other film music and game music kitsch which at least are ‘musical’. It would be quite unhelpful to try to answer them point by point. I’d be grateful for your thoughts and look forward to your reply.Īll the questions in your comment reflect a confusion of aesthetic value… and an unawareness of something very big. Doesn’t the fact that someone is paying LSO to make this recording (and I note that they seem to have lost the Star Wars gig this time round) suggest that this music is more likely to appeal to…, well, someone, and does that count for anything in your evaluation, or does the marketplace not have a place in your conception of the value–merit may be a better word–of music? (Disclosure: I think that the orchestral tradition is dead if it cannot find a way to appeal to actual listeners, and not just government subsidizers and well-placed critics.) Not challenging, but good music still.)Ĥ. Disclosure: I think JW’s Star Wars–which introduced me to orchestral music 40 years ago–has genius in it, and a number of masterworks.
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Does the fact that FF is a video game soundtrack influence your evaluation? (You seem also to disdain movie soundtracks like Star Wars, if I read your comment correctly. What distinguishes Final Fantasy from both of these pieces that earns your disdain here?ģ.
(Not everything needs to be challenging.)Īnother recent example might be Oliver Davis’s “Flight” concerto. Is this music that far afield from, say, James Horner’s new Pas De Deux? That piece could be criticized as too “filmic”–a criticism leveled at Alwyn and others too–but I found it to be enjoyable if not challenging. Why is this music so bad? Isn’t it far better than PB on the Borstlap scale? Or are you a musical Goldilocks, rejecting Final Fantasy porridge on the one side and PB on the other, awaiting the perfect…what?Ģ. The Final Fantasy piece posted here is certainly a schlocky–and seems to my untrained ears to suffer from a certain awkwardness of orchestration. It seems to me that your critique of modern music (in the Boulez vain) is that it is a mere academic exercise, that it lacks a “musical” “expressive” dimension to distinguish it from “sonic art”–sounds for their own sake. Earlier this week, I spent an afternoon reading your views on modern music and Boulez, which I very much enjoyed.īut, in light of that reading, your views here surprise and perplex me.
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