31/03/2007
faking it
The differences between faking, copying and imitating, or building on the work and advances of others, or working 'in the style of'... or being part of a movement, seem very blurred and hard to define. Do we 'stand on the shoulders of giants' because we are pygmies unable to get any where without using others as a ladder? Or want to pretend to be giants too and get the unearned kudos? Or is it the whole basis of advance in understanding and in art?
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I think it's more to do with writing in a recognisable style, ie. with some familiarity with what has gone before, rather than a complete break with everything; we like what we know and can understand. Indeed, can it be said that our taste is governed exclusevely by familiarity?
Schoenberg comes to mind as one who did break with everything that had come before when he invented serialisation; but before people actually liked it much he had to bring it down a notch or too and revisit the idea in a slightly more 'romantic' key (see Berg violin concerto, for example)
While serialisation is not something Im sure of, does what you say mean that it is the reason why i can sing along with electrical hum all at once?
in a sense yes, I'm sure you'd find it more difficult to hum along with Pierrot lunaire
Oh dear, the pleasure isn't just a good tune then? what particular funny bone is being tickled by Schoenberg?
At least I wouldn't feel trapped as happens in Tito.
vivaldi does have good tunes...
the smallest of library users (now medium sized) is dancing away to Vivaldi tunes in these very days. Also he has a good beat (viv). The problem with the operas is their length, rather than the arias themselves.
i'm sure medium also has a good beat.
Librarian, the difficulty with Schoenberg is that he decided tonality was no longer necessary (big break with all that had gone before; not sure how successful an idea but others took on from there).
Lenna, Medium definately has a good beat and has been dancing all day; is particularly fond of the bass instruments that make my chair vibrate (there are lots of them). Even played the flauto today...
sorry, i meant definitely.
I have emailed a Library user, formerly of Birmingham, to say the Library blog exists. Watch your spelling. We'll all be under Hillcrest rules.
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