Welcome to one of the most active flamenco sites on the Internet. Guests can read most posts but if you want to participate click here to register.
This site is dedicated to the memory of Paco de Lucía, Ron Mitchell, Guy Williams, Linda Elvira, Philip John Lee, Craig Eros, Ben Woods, David Serva and Tom Blackshear who went ahead of us.
We receive 12,200 visitors a month from 200 countries and 1.7 million page impressions a year. To advertise on this site please contact us.
|
|
RE: What makes a music "good"?
|
You are logged in as Guest
|
Users viewing this topic: none
|
|
Login | |
|
Miguel de Maria
Posts: 3532
Joined: Oct. 20 2003
From: Phoenix, AZ
|
RE: What makes a music "good"? (in reply to Pgh_flamenco)
|
|
|
A simple theory of art: one "promises" something to the audience, and the fulfills those promises in a surprising way, thus creating maximum satisfaction. If you start playing, say, bulerias, you are promising things based on what the audience knows about bulerias--say, a compas, a tempo, certain idiomatic strumming patterns and melodies. But if you just straight out play old falsetas and rasgueados, while not bad, you are probably not completely satisfying a contemporary audience. If you do that, but have tweaked the music some in interesting and creative ways, that is if you have innovated, the listeners will be both satisfied that you are correctly executing a bulerias _and_ will be pleasantly surprised at your new twists. A performance that is so changed and distant from what the audience conceives of as bulerias will leave them cold. They have nothing to hang on to. But something that is just an exact copy of "the album" will feel stilted, museum-like, dead. The mix of old and new is a matter of taste.
_____________________________
Connect with me on Facebook, all the cool kids are doing it. https://www.facebook.com/migueldemariaZ Arizona Wedding Music Guitar
|
|
|
REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE |
Date Jun. 26 2019 17:29:03
|
|
New Messages |
No New Messages |
Hot Topic w/ New Messages |
Hot Topic w/o New Messages |
Locked w/ New Messages |
Locked w/o New Messages |
|
Post New Thread
Reply to Message
Post New Poll
Submit Vote
Delete My Own Post
Delete My Own Thread
Rate Posts
|
|
|
Forum Software powered by ASP Playground Advanced Edition 2.0.5
Copyright © 2000 - 2003 ASPPlayground.NET |
6.640625E-02 secs.
|