Re: Effect of Notation process on engraving rules
Posted: 10 Apr 2020, 19:01
This might just be a part of a bigger picture: the democratization of values. Buy a music program and be your own "composer" and "engraver".
"My taste is as good as yours". And perhaps it is, really. It's very difficult to argue against such notions. Who would argue against democracy?
This is not something entirely new, of course. John Cage once entered one of Arnold Schoenberg's harmony classes in LA. After some time Schoenberg bluntly told Cage that he didn't seem to have a sense for harmony. Cage replied: "Well, I guess harmony's not my thing then". What could Schoenberg say to that?
In present politics there's a wave of 'ultra-democracy', aka 'populism', where 'the establishment' and the traditional values that its institutions uphold, are put under fire. 'Traditional values', also such as the right for art to be innovative, and disturbing even.
"My taste is as good as yours". And perhaps it is, really. It's very difficult to argue against such notions. Who would argue against democracy?
This is not something entirely new, of course. John Cage once entered one of Arnold Schoenberg's harmony classes in LA. After some time Schoenberg bluntly told Cage that he didn't seem to have a sense for harmony. Cage replied: "Well, I guess harmony's not my thing then". What could Schoenberg say to that?
In present politics there's a wave of 'ultra-democracy', aka 'populism', where 'the establishment' and the traditional values that its institutions uphold, are put under fire. 'Traditional values', also such as the right for art to be innovative, and disturbing even.