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From Arnold Schoenberg's Fundamentals of Music Composition: > "Intelligibility in music seems to be impossible without repetition. While repetition without var
by DavidPiper 2y ago
From Arnold Schoenberg's Fundamentals of Music Composition:
> "Intelligibility in music seems to be impossible without repetition. While repetition without variation can easily produce monotony, juxtaposition of distantly related elements can easily degenerate into nonsense... Only so much variation as character, length, and tempo required should be admitted."
I'm not completely sure how this squares with the fact that I can listen to a song that I like dozens of times and still enjoy it, but I definitely understand it from the point of view of constructing an interesting work in the first place.
- xboxnolifes 2y ago> I'm not completely sure how this squares with the fact that I can listen to a song that I like dozens of times and still enjoy it Well, it raises the question of: does listening to a non-repetitive song, repeatedly, make it repetitive? Is there a certain gap of time that, even if something repeats, that it no longer feels repetitive?
- ajuc 2y agoI think the part of our brains that enjoys music only has short-term memory and is experiencing the pattern-breaking surprise every time, even if you remember the song consciously. I'd say it's even over time trained to recognize the patters it encounters quicker, so the songs become MORE enjoyable the more you listen to them (up to a point).