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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?
- 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 ...
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Oct 31, 2014 · Convey an interpretation The conductor is there to bring a musical score to life, communicating their own highly refined sense of the work through an individual language of gestures, which might...
Present-day discussions of performance and interpretation must take into account the historically informed performance movement (aka HIP), which is responsible for an extensive body of specialized music literature on the performance practices of specific musical periods.
- Sezi Seskir, David Hyun-Su Kim
- 2020
By the time of J.S. Bach and George Frideric Handel (late 17th to mid-18th century), the role of key musician was not only to compose music on demand but to conduct it as well, usually from the composer-performer’s chair at the organ or harpsichord.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
A conductor is a musical maestro who directs and leads orchestras, choirs, or other musical ensembles during performances. Acting as both a guide and interpreter, the conductor is responsible for shaping the musical interpretation of a composition, ensuring unity, precision, and emotional resonance among the musicians.
Because a playwright is not just a writer of plays but a builder of plays. Playwrights are architects for the theatre and as such are equal parts visionary, anthropologist, poet, and historian. Plays are not only words on a page but a structure for future dramatic action.
