Tamman
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Music theory class. We have to review a live performance with "technical analysis." Focus on harmony, structure, technique. Leave emotion out of it.
I went to a jazz concert last night. It was incredible. The saxophonist played a solo that made me cry. Not because of his technique (which was flawless) but because of what he COMMUNICATED. The feeling. The soul. The story.
Now I have to write 3 pages about chord progressions and key changes. About things I can measure instead of things I felt.
I know theory matters. I know technique matters. But is that really what music IS? Is that what we should be teaching? How to measure art instead of how to feel it?
My draft is technically correct. It's also dead. No life. No soul. No music.
How do you analyze without killing the thing you love?
I went to a jazz concert last night. It was incredible. The saxophonist played a solo that made me cry. Not because of his technique (which was flawless) but because of what he COMMUNICATED. The feeling. The soul. The story.
Now I have to write 3 pages about chord progressions and key changes. About things I can measure instead of things I felt.
I know theory matters. I know technique matters. But is that really what music IS? Is that what we should be teaching? How to measure art instead of how to feel it?
My draft is technically correct. It's also dead. No life. No soul. No music.
How do you analyze without killing the thing you love?
