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Rule-Bending

A couple of days not posting nonetheless rich in reflection: my attention is repeatedly drawn to the over-reliance on conformity in music pedagogy. Tonality, for example, does not exist in the abstract; every tonality is acoustic-dependent, sometimes anatomically relevant. How much more interesting Classical music would be to people of all ages if expectation were of rule-bending rather than obedience. Why, for example, does that sonata begin on the 6th note of the scale? Why, out of a series of five otherwise sensibly related quarter notes is only one staccato?

Ask Wolfgang; ask Ludwig. Don't be surprised to find yourself turned on in the process in a completely new way to music you thought you knew.

 
 
 

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