Posted on 04/05/2013 2:56:10 PM PDT by Perdogg
Um. I’m hoping you didn’t read my last post to you, before I hit the Abuse Button. If you did I’m sorry about that last sentence. It had nothing to do with anything about you or FR.
Something I never expected to see again, crawled out of 30 years ago, today. I should have known better than to distract myself anywhere near a keyboard.
I didn’t see it.
Take care. :)
It sounds like you just don’t like the period. Classicism means clarity of line and emotional restraint. The polyphony of the Baroque was unfashionable then...it was seen as out of step with the Enlightenment’s image of the Common Man. Mozart was writing the most complex music of his time...his contemporaries saw his music as abstruse and difficult to follow.
I’d say that was nothing but an academic interpretation of historical circumstances you couldn’t possibly know but, I had a head-on collision with the ‘expectations of the period’. At the end of 8th grade I applied to a conservatory...I don’t know why as I didn’t expect to be accepted but I was...and ended up being tortured the next two years.
I don’t know - or even care- what “serious music” is like today but back then form over function was the single driving force and any consonance was dismissed out of hand. A “prestigious” one-week workshop with that idiot stoner Phillip Glass was the last straw. I dropped out, never stepped-foot in a classroom again and stopped writing until around the age of 21.
When I started again my academic experience coupled with having been horribly abused as a child left me unwilling to allow anyone (except a few close friends) hear or see anything I wrote. Up until around the age of 38, I threw away pretty much everything just after finishing it. It was around then a friend realized what I was doing and made it pretty clear he’d kick my ass if he caught me tossing anymore music. So I stopped, again.
Functionally computer coding is no different than music composition so, my profession satisfies me. Serious music can go to hell.
I sometimes wonder how much music we never heard because of situations like mine.
It’s historical fact that contemporaries of the time were actively promoting and writing about. Rousseau called for the ‘abolition of counterpoint’.
Oh. I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to give you the impression I was arguing about that....or about anything, actually. I was agreeing with the premise that mediocre minds could exert control over, or stifle better contemporaries. And I agreed because it just happens that exact situation was the last straw that led to me having a nervous breakdown at 16 and why I’ve tossed pretty much everything I’ve written.
I had already been terribly abused as a child and that damage is permanent in the form of C-PTSD. There’s no way I’d ever let talentless morons take the one thing I have left away from me so, I never pursued a career. I throw the music away out of spite. (Don’t try to make sense of it. Child abuse victims almost always have strange behaviors that make sense only to them.)
I’ve seen you for years and know you have an expertise in music history I wouldn’t challenge. As for music itself, I don’t need to argue. I got that.
So, again, sorry. If you ever see anything from me that looks like I’m arguing with you, just assume I’m not......unless I address you with the honorific “Jerk”........
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