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Ethnocentrism
16 years ago
Ethnocentrism is defined as: "The tendency to look at the world primarily from the perspective of one's own culture."
Learnt this in my Music in World Cultures lectures and it got me thinking...
I've noticed that a lot of people here (and this is not meant to offend anyone) seem to enjoy the piano improvs and remixed music more then the original stuff (minus the billions of techno pieces!). Take my most recent submission, LOZ: Dark World. It is an arrangement for a section of The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past ie NOT original. It took me about an hour to put together...then my second latest submission, The Alternatives of Pitch is an ORIGINAL piece which I spent ages on. Here are the stats:
Coming back to my first point, modern day people regard the tonal system as pure awesome. I tend to largely ignore the tonal system (although tonal centers are still apparent), but I get very few lookers with my 'non-tonal' stuff, because people regard tonal as absolute. Leave tonality and a lot of people will hate it because they're so used to tonality...this annoys me slightly.
Another thing that I find annoying is the fact that something which took me next to nothing to come up with using minimal effort, that I couldn't give a crap about, almost has quadruple times the interest of something which I worked hard to produce! Its almost...sad that people don't want to branch out and perhaps find the next composer whom will write epic pieces like the Dark World theme.
I'm gonna stop my ranting by telling you that I'm gonna do a few more 'arrangements', along with originals, to lure people in and then start to produce more original works!!! But still doing arrangements, of course... =)
Learnt this in my Music in World Cultures lectures and it got me thinking...
I've noticed that a lot of people here (and this is not meant to offend anyone) seem to enjoy the piano improvs and remixed music more then the original stuff (minus the billions of techno pieces!). Take my most recent submission, LOZ: Dark World. It is an arrangement for a section of The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past ie NOT original. It took me about an hour to put together...then my second latest submission, The Alternatives of Pitch is an ORIGINAL piece which I spent ages on. Here are the stats:
LOZ: Dark World
Posted a day ago
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The Alternatives of Pitch
Posted 3 days ago
Favourites 1
Comments 3
Views 13Coming back to my first point, modern day people regard the tonal system as pure awesome. I tend to largely ignore the tonal system (although tonal centers are still apparent), but I get very few lookers with my 'non-tonal' stuff, because people regard tonal as absolute. Leave tonality and a lot of people will hate it because they're so used to tonality...this annoys me slightly.
Another thing that I find annoying is the fact that something which took me next to nothing to come up with using minimal effort, that I couldn't give a crap about, almost has quadruple times the interest of something which I worked hard to produce! Its almost...sad that people don't want to branch out and perhaps find the next composer whom will write epic pieces like the Dark World theme.
I'm gonna stop my ranting by telling you that I'm gonna do a few more 'arrangements', along with originals, to lure people in and then start to produce more original works!!! But still doing arrangements, of course... =)
If you're referring to notes, what you just wrote is called 'chromaticism'. When those notes are organised into keys (eg Cmajor, aminor etc) then its tonal!
Aren't those scales? Keys are what I push to produce sounds.
keys are notes arranged in a certain fashion.
scales are notes played in step.
Pretty different...
Someone really needs to come up with some original terms that won't be mistaken for something else.
In particular, gaming music is particularly popular with this group because they've heard it so many times -- they might like variations on it, but they like the familiar.
We have to work with the humanity we're given, not the humanity we'd like to have...
I just used tonal as an example, we've been doing it a lot at uni!
And the humanity thing was very philosophical! But it doesn't hurt to try and make a difference...
I've been studying tonal theory (it's required here for first years). It seems beneficial to know about certain methods of melodic/harmonic construction so you can choose whether to abide by them or consciously ignore them. At least that's what I've seen.
With tonal music generally there's also an accompanying form to it. People know where the music is going, and at some levels it's predictable. The idea listeners get mostly from less tonally-based works is no clear "direction", and so it's hard to keep interest in it if you're going from place to place. Not to say that's bad. I just have to listen to it several times to really hear what the composer is trying to say.
Kind of like Scriabin. Have you heard his fifth piano sonata: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0lfk2QgPhc ? It's sweet.
Yeah, I do have to learn tonal theory here as well, I find it really easy, but we're told in composition tutorials to be inventive!!!