In the Beginning
For years I knew that music was something I wanted to do the rest of my life. Even in high school, with little proper training, I knew that I wanted a degree that pertained to music. Where exactly I wanted to go with it never registered until my last semester at my community college. When it hit I was looking for programs across Florida that included Music Education, Jazz Composition, Performance, etc. Finally, I came across Florida Southern College which had exactly what I was looking for: straight upMusic Composition. Since then I have come a long way and am writing music daily. Even with little experience in earlier years aside from my bands and the basics from my middle school and marching band years I knew that it was meant to be.
From here on I will continue to post my views, opinions and reflections on music. Nothing else in the world can touch people as deeply as music. However, I believe it can also have the opposite effect if it is not understood or preformed properly. Music is expression. What one must understand while reading my later blogs is that not all experiences that we receive in life are pleasant. Which leads to our of these experiences will most likely not be pleasant. Thus music is a form of expression… it’s possible for it not to be “pleasant” in a way. Take for example Arnold Schoenberg’s A Survivor from Warsaw, it’s a piece based on a true story about the Holocaust. It’s a very dissonant piece making it hard for listeners to understand. Yet, it is one of the most powerful works in history because of the experience it tells because of what we’ll learn about ourselves, our history and our future by listening to it. Simply by listening.
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9:30 pm on June 19th, 2009
Dissonant pieces tend to be more difficult for people to get yes, but at the same time some of the greatest can come from that type of experimentation. Rock on !