From Composer to Interpreter to Listener

Paragraph 4 What’s the difference between a picture and music?
The interpreter is a kind of What do middlemaninterpreters composers, in music.
and listeners do for a piece of music?
long and complex sentences are relieved by Examples: the poor musician, having shorterfinished his composition, must and simpler sentences.
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What do them do for a piece of music? Who, do you think, plays the most important role of the three, composer, interpreter, or listener, in a musical experience? Give you reasons.
What kind of music do you like best?
What of a piece of music attracts you most, its melody, lyrics, composer, or singers?
Composer Interpreter Listener
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What kind of mistakes The main idea: will composers make? The first real interpretive problem How about the interpreters? is presented by the notes themselves. How can the problem be solved?
a piece of music
composers
interpreters
listeners
relationship between the composer,
interpreter and listener, and
different role each plays in a musical experience. This essay is formal and academic; it’s style is typical of formal English.
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The main idea: The interpreter exists to serve the composer——to assimilate and recreate the composer’s “message”.
Paragraph 8 The main idea: Above all things, composers and interpreters want listeners who lend themselves fully to the music that they are hearing.
Paragraph 9&10&11 To lend oneself completely inevitably means, for one thing, the broadening of one’s taste. Take seriously your responsibility as listener.
The formation of a composer’s style is a result of the combination of personality and period .
Can a composer have only one style? And what can influence his style?
The sentences are mostly he gives us, then? The What is it that long and complex. turn it over mostly tender mercies of paragraphs areseriouslythe long, and also to your Take an interpretive artist ——who, well-developed. The tone is not particularly responsibility as listener. it must rather informative and be entertaining, but alwaysis, toremembered, is Interpretation a large a being with his own musical nature authoritative. The writer avoids extent, a matter of emphasis. and his own personality. (L33) monotony by several techniques.
Music can only be really alive when there are listeners who are really alive.
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What is important for a composer to have? Always remember that when you listen to a Why is it important? composer’s creation your are listening to a man, to a particular individual, with What’s the his own special main idea? personality.
For example: He employs variety with much The text as a whole is carefully organizedin the length and to clear and of his sentences to help attention givencomplexity thorough development of ideas, which results in very x sentence structures. sustain the reader’s interest. The relatively
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gives us himself.
What is it that he gives us, then?
Paragraph 3 What does a composer’s Main idea individual character include?
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This is an exposition, dealing with the
Paragraph 7 What can’t the interpreters betray? The main idea: The interpreter must be faithful to the compositions’ style even though he has his own personality.