An Encyclopedia of Quotations About Music by Nat Shapiro (auth.), Nat Shapiro (eds.)

By Nat Shapiro (auth.), Nat Shapiro (eds.)

Writing approximately music-about what it's and what it means-is such as describing the act of affection. in some way, the aid of the adventure to an unblushingly targeted exposition of ways, the place, whilst, and why who does what to whom, from prelude to resolu­ tion, loses every little thing within the translation. the opposite severe, the single in which the author, in desperation, inns to metaphor (with or with out good thing about meter and rhyme), traditionally ends up in im­ agery that's banal, vulgar, inane, vague, pretentious, and usually insufferably romantic. to accomplish strong and actual writing approximately track is as infrequent an accomplishment as specialist wine-tasting, lion-taming, diamond-cut­ ting, truffie-finding and (if one simply occurs to be an unconverted Mohican courageous) deer-tracking. in basic terms the intuitive, the natural, the sensual, and the intrepid want practice. expert musicians frequently proof a hard and fast tendency both to rudely forget about otherwise to actively despise these folks who bravely attempt to comprehend, outline, and describe their artwork. To many composers and instrumentalists, these outsiders (nonmusicians) who've the temerity to debate something extra summary than the electronic dexterity of a fiddler, the actual vainness of a conductor, or the salary scales for time beyond regulation recording periods are judged precious basically of contempt or-at the most-patronizing tolerance. "Music potential itself," insists one of many individuals to the gathering that follows, and lots of practitioners of the paintings of organ­ ized sound would favor to depart it at that.