Word: musicalization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fifth speaker in the summer Thursday Speakers Series, Blake defined "Third Stream Music" as "a beautiful strand of two different musical styles," and added that the road to success in the new stream comes with listening to sounds of music and not just following notes on paper...
...Blake, composer and chairman of the Music Department of the New England Conservatory of Music, told composers to listen more and write less, during his lecture on "Third Stream Music...
...success in this kind of music, and in composing in general, he added, "is to learn music at the very first from the ear, not from the note." Schools should teach music students to "stretch their ears," to be creative and to "internalize" sounds instead of just writing them down, he said. However, he concluded, "we are today turning out a tremendous number of improvisors who are robots...
...remedy the problem, Blake proposed that serious composition students stretch their "ear memory" by listening to all kinds of music, then learning to "feel" music sounds by selective listening...
...Lemme tell ya, this Barry Manifold guy has really got me steamed. I mean, what does a Manifold know about music, anyways? Can he play 'Ten Thousand Men,' or 'Screw B.U.' even...