Looking for a quote
May 19, 2005 9:56 AM Subscribe
I swear that I've seen this quote before: "A good {conductor,composer} will anticipate his audience... and then do something else." That may not be the exact phrasing, and my googlefu has failed me. Does anyone recognize this?
Best answer: No one else seems to be stepping up here...
I found this, from Levi-Strauss:
"The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on the basis of a pattern that he thinks he can guess, but that he is incapable of wholly divining. If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void. When the composer withholds less, the opposite occurs: he forces us to perform gymnastic exercises more skillful than our own."
here
posted by sagwalla at 10:43 AM on May 20, 2005
I found this, from Levi-Strauss:
"The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on the basis of a pattern that he thinks he can guess, but that he is incapable of wholly divining. If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void. When the composer withholds less, the opposite occurs: he forces us to perform gymnastic exercises more skillful than our own."
here
posted by sagwalla at 10:43 AM on May 20, 2005
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posted by sagwalla at 10:54 AM on May 19, 2005