Boulez is pretty specialized! Did you study music at university? Serial music is unnatural. Research into human perception acknowledges that the average human being can perceive and retain about 5 things in memory plus or minus two. Pentatonic scales, three chords, 7 notes in the diatonic scale. Serial music is old music. When Stravinsky wrote The Rite of Spring (1913), any composer who was still writing in a style of 70 years prior (1840s) would have been considered not only "old-fashioned," but downright weird!
My name is John Oliver, guitarist in 88 strings, but also a well-known Canadian composer. Follow my music publication to connect to more comments like this! https://johnolivercomposer.substack.com/
Boulez is pretty specialized! Did you study music at university? Serial music is unnatural. Research into human perception acknowledges that the average human being can perceive and retain about 5 things in memory plus or minus two. Pentatonic scales, three chords, 7 notes in the diatonic scale. Serial music is old music. When Stravinsky wrote The Rite of Spring (1913), any composer who was still writing in a style of 70 years prior (1840s) would have been considered not only "old-fashioned," but downright weird!
My name is John Oliver, guitarist in 88 strings, but also a well-known Canadian composer. Follow my music publication to connect to more comments like this! https://johnolivercomposer.substack.com/
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