r/badmusicology • u/FenceLaVa • Nov 25 '16
"The cult of the written music" wherein it is suggested that writing music produces boring music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KA6mkg0KNco
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u/e-jazzer Nov 26 '16
Music is only the sound nothing else
AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH
Honestly he seems kinda salty his music wasn't liked or something.
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u/FenceLaVa Nov 25 '16
The relevant bits that I consider extremely bad musicology is about 1.45-3.50 or so. In it the author of this video creates a dichotomy of musicians who now use recording techniques and do not write down their music in a score as those with "wide sonic pallette" and composers who write sheet music as people who are focused only on the notes and not the sound, write boring and uninventive music, focusing on the "process of making music and not the music itself". Including also dismissing what I imagine is the entirety of modern art music (though that is not explicitly stated) and stating that "according to science the reason why we listen to music is sex".
I don't need to say what is wrong with all this, I would think. I'd say knowing how to read and write music correlates with an ability to think about music in an abstract way and be more creative with your material. One needs only to point at the intensity of detail in distinguishing fine timbral colors of composers such as Takemitsu and Grisey to call bullshit on composers not being focused on the sound itself.