![]() ![]() One thing that it does bring up however is that I detest improv theater albeit in music I don't mind good jams and Led Zep for instance could do that for hours and still be very compelling. Increasingly today I appreciate the plays less as they stray so far from the original written works and take imo too much licence departing from original. I can appreciate either read, or performed. ![]() But I don't share your apparent dislike of plays in written form. Most that develop into plays now were originally novels, short stories etc. Essentially its a play but written as novel. The Dinner by Herman Koch is a good example of this. Many movies that are very like plays are based on novels. You bent my ear on that one.ĭisagree with you on plays. I do have crystal clear memory of music, as if its recorded in my memory but no hearing from sheet notes. TBH I'm not predisposed to thinking of it that way because I can't hear music off sheet music like some people can. I see no reason to judge them by the same set of criteria that I would judge a Taylor Swift single on iTunes. The very nature of the music is in the performance and the performance is personal, rooted in a time and place. They're making music for the 5 people around a campfire one particular night in late August, or that one time when you were little on your grandparents' back porch. They aren't making music for driving down the highway or listening on the stereo in your bedroom. ![]() But listening to them in that medium misses the point. Folk artists are often self-trained musicans/singers and translate very poorly to the recorded medium. The magic of the performance is in the tones, the gestures, the little improvisational moments.Īgain, I completely disagree with this, and especially as it applies to folk music. But put it on stage, properly performed, and even a child can see the appeal. Very few people can honestly say they've read all five acts of a Shakespeare play, fully understood what they were reading, and enjoyed it. Have you never been to a play? A poetry reading? Who in their right mind would sit around reading the script to a Broadway show?įor that matter, Shakespeare in written form is famously, painfully boring on first exposure. Music existed for thousands of years without recordings even being a concept, yet clearly many songs gained a mass audience during that time period.Īgain, there are obvious counter-examples to this point. Sheet music is an obvious counter-example. ![]()
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