Ever forward guiding light song serial#
The intersection of his highly personal practice with serialism led to music of tensile strength and economy, and certainly some of the most engaging serial works ever written. Looking into the previous century, Stravinsky around 1950 felt his neoclassical period was playing itself out and searched for a re-engagement with modernism. For Verdi, there’s a similar dichotomy, with increased spirituality (the Requiem) and a sudden turn to greater complexity and naturalism (in Falstaff and Otello, a response to the challenge of two other masters across centuries, Shakespeare and his contemporary Wagner). For Beethoven, it’s a combination of grand, cosmic ambition (think of the Ninth Symphony) and gnarly individualism, a complete rupturing of given forms (think of the late string quartets, especially Op. Their responses to a sense of time running out are, of course, as varied as the individuals involved. One instructive route is to see what composers in the late stages of their lives have concentrated upon. But how can this need be reconciled with the sentiments above? I’ll go out on a limb and make a few suggestions on the topic of “survivability.” To ignore this is, I think, also dishonest. And having so spoken, there remains that nagging desire to make something that will resonate, a ripple in the pond of time that any of us have initiated. Okay, I’ve said the noble thing, and it’s something I definitely believe. It makes the most sense to devote ourselves to the art for its own sake, and to stand clear of considerations that will distract us from the selflessness of this commitment. To devote one’s energies to achieving “immortality” is a fool’s game, and will probably distract from the very survival of the art that one desires.It is highly likely that no matter how our music fares, we will have no idea of the result.None of us can ever control the fate of our works in the future beyond us.They need to put any wild suggestions I make in perspective: I think they need to be stated upfront, and will resonate after whatever conclusions I reach.
Ever forward guiding light song series#
As I approach the end of this series on death and the fate of our music, I want to emphasize a few points that I firmly believe.
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