Check out this review of the last in my current Haydn / Bartok series.
http://lucidculture.wordpress.com/2013/05/13/haydn/
Welcome to this day to day sharing of insights into music. My thoughts and my playing reflect my lifelong drive to integrate primary reactions to sounds with a sense of playfulness open to lyricism as to intellectual game-playing - the level of musical response endangered if not already extinct due to the endemic compilations of sameness that make up our soundworld.
Sunday, May 19, 2013
Inconstancy not Fickleness
I love it when a blog reader questions a term or disagrees with a post. Thanks!
My recent use of the word "fickleness" to characterize many Dowland songs really was not accurate. I would change the word to inconstancy, a much more accurate characterization of the connection between form and content and also of more complex human behavior.
Inconstancy would be well depicted in the usage to which I referred in the Dowland, i.e., a seemingly repeated figure that, in fact, undergoes hidden variation upon "repeat" so as to form an elision with the following material. The hidden variation inevitably involves a shift of emphasis, usually both melodic and rhythmic.
The same reader asked if it is really true that I get up at 4:30 a.m. to publish my posts. Rest assured I do not. The 4:30 a.m. is Pacific Standard Time, 7:30 a.m. Eastern. I usually schedule the posts a few days in advance of their actual appearing and choose the hour so that the reader may start the day with the blog along with their (gluten-free) toast and tea.
My recent use of the word "fickleness" to characterize many Dowland songs really was not accurate. I would change the word to inconstancy, a much more accurate characterization of the connection between form and content and also of more complex human behavior.
Inconstancy would be well depicted in the usage to which I referred in the Dowland, i.e., a seemingly repeated figure that, in fact, undergoes hidden variation upon "repeat" so as to form an elision with the following material. The hidden variation inevitably involves a shift of emphasis, usually both melodic and rhythmic.
The same reader asked if it is really true that I get up at 4:30 a.m. to publish my posts. Rest assured I do not. The 4:30 a.m. is Pacific Standard Time, 7:30 a.m. Eastern. I usually schedule the posts a few days in advance of their actual appearing and choose the hour so that the reader may start the day with the blog along with their (gluten-free) toast and tea.