Music = Composer x Player x Listener. Bach Prelude C Major #Bach #Piano #MusicAppreciation
Channel: Makiko Hirata
Date: 2021-11-11

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Who is more important: the composer, the player, or the listener? That's like asking if the recipe is more important than the dish or the person who eats it. Music - and a dish - need all three forms of participation in order to mean anything at all! It's a collaborative creation of an experience. In this video, I demonstrate how much the interpretation and the delivery of the player can change a piece of music, and how listening can be such a creative and imaginative act in a musical experience. 

作曲家と奏者と視聴者の中で誰が一番重要なのでしょうか？それはレシピの発案者と料理人と食べる人の誰が一番重要か聞いているのと同じです。３つの形の参加が初めて音楽を音楽たらしめるんです。このヴィデオではバッハの前奏曲一番ハ長調を例に奏者の演奏がいかに曲の音楽を変えるか、そして音楽体験では聴くという行為がいかに創造的で想像力を要するものか、デモンストレーションいたします。

0:00 Music and Food: Composer = Recipe generator, Player  = Chef, Listener = Eater. In the Western classical music, composer is thought to be at the top of the hierarchy of these three parties - but is that logical? 
1:45 Introducing the example: J.S. Bach's Prelude No. 1 in C Major
2:09 According to the tradition, I will not deviate from the score
2:20 The held bass notes
2:36 The tenor voice coming off of the bass notes. 
2:54 The right hand part in sixteenth notes
3:17 The first four measures, played "straight" according to what Bach wrote
3:51 Pedal and articulation = texture in food (like how grainy or mushy a porridge is) 
4:55 Sound volume = temperature of the served food
5:58 Tempo variations = varied emphasis
6:35 Superimposing another melody on top of an existing piece. 
7:53 Listening to music is a creative/imaginative act!
8:12 Music is a collaboration between the composer, the player and the listener! 
8:43 PERFORMANCE: J.S. Bach Prelude No. 1 in C Major