https://youtube/watch?v=UGPJDgp2-9A Some things to consider about the changing conception of time in music, in relation to its social and religious function. It highlights the change from the cyclical, congregational patterns of Bach to the linear, autobiographical individualism of Romanticism (an era which we can say we are still part of today). The film-maker here describes Gould... Thinking as a composer he identifies creatively with the work performed and can therefore allow himself a critical and non-servile attitude towards the score. Immersed in the work, he would wish the listener also to become part of the creative process. For if one put less emphasis on the notion of individual or separate identity, composer, interpreter and listener should be in a state to reclaim the unity shattered by the artistic concepts of the Romantic Age. Composer, interpreter and listener. That sounds like it might have resonances for you, Stephen Talbutt x Apparently such a point is made in the essay Bachs Cycle, Mozarts Arrow, although it doesnt look like an easy-going read. I like this passage: To see clearly what Bach does is also to begin to see why he does it. What he does is to make simultaneous what normally is (and earlier had been in the chorus), successive, and to abolish the succession of past, present, and future for the simultaneity of the present—in short, to abolish the flow of time in favor of the eternal Now. Beautiful.
Posted on: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 13:25:32 +0000
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