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- When performing a musical work, a performer interprets the piece to help the audience understand what’s happening.
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Apr 9, 2019 · When performing a musical work, a performer interprets the piece to help the audience understand what’s happening. Here are just a few examples of things in a piece of music that might need interpretation for the audience’s benefit: Where does one phrase end and the next begin?
Jan 16, 2020 · Students who see music performance as a process of fixing notes and rhythms suddenly gain a much broader and deeper view of music when they see how fundamental one’s interpretation is for professional musicians.
- Paul Trapkus
- 2020
- Is Music A Language?
- Objective and Subjective Components to Interpretation
- Musical Grammar
- Style
To interpret music, we need two fundamental things. First and foremost, we need to speak the musical language. To tell a story, we need to speak the language, and music is a kind of language. It might not literally be a "language"—it might not satisfy the criteria for "language" by professors of linguistics—but it does have grammar, inflection, art...
Many people assume that the arts are entirely subjective, but that would be an oversimplification. An art such as music has both objective and subjective aspects, and the division between them is by no means always black and white. Rules of composition and playing are towards the objective end of the spectrum. Some rules are explicitly written, whi...
There are also aspects of playing music that form a sort of grammar. These are typically not notated—the composer expects us to "speak" the language and read between the lines. Maybe you've heard someone ac-CENT the wrong syl-LA-ble—or maybe you've done so yourself when learning a foreign language. In music, some notes are naturally emphasized whil...
The second fundamental thing we need to interpret music is an understanding of style. When was the music written? What were the performance practices of the day? How fast is "allegro"? What instrument(s) was it written for? What did they sound like at the time, and what might that imply for our performance on a modern instrument? For example, Bach ...
Jun 26, 2022 · How can interpretation be developed when everything is being done according to a given sheet music; from dynamic variations (crescendos, diminuendos, etc.) to tempo control (retardation, etc.)?, does interpretation come from implementing these in different ways, or does it use some completely different tool (s) not present in the sheet music?
- While this question does not have a correct/wrong answer at all, I'll share my own thoughts and experiences. There is a huge difference between 'pl...
- "Now if I play the notes correctly, play with the dynamics as given in the sheet music, and also the articulation, then what remains?" You are in...
- Ever seen portraits of the same person, pictures of the same landscape, done at the same time by different artists? All will be recognisable as tha...
- Interpretation is what make every rendition of the same sheet music played by different pianists (or even the same pianist at different times) soun...
- HOW TO DEVELOP YOUR OWN INTERPRETATION Pick a piece and, say, recordings of 5 different performances of the piece. One of the performances has to b...
We assert that these artists leverage precise combinations of musical elements (rather than random assortments of sounds) to strategically shape their musical message. For example, Martin Luther King, Jr. leveraged specific musical elements to transform his “I Have a Dream” speech into a moving song.
First, music holds textual meaning, or the message of the song as ascertained through the lyrics. Second, there is auditory meaning, which can be discerned by the atmosphere or mood that the song creates through a specific combination of notes, tempo, dynamic, rhythm, etc.
Is the music you’re playing absolute music? or are there extramusical associations? How does the music cause conflict or ambiguity between two ideas? Does the combination of motives, harmonies, themes, etc. create a musical “equation” between them?
