Quotes by Paul Lansky

Paul Lansky

It’s always a thrill for me to see new versions of my pieces on YouTube.

Pieces

Thrill

Youtube

It’s very interesting for me to listen to music with my wife. She’s not a musician but she very often makes comments about pieces in ways that are similar to what I’m thinking.

Interesting

Thinking

Wife

My perspective on the academic world is very favorable. I did certain kinds of things that I could never have done otherwise.

Done

Perspective

World

Sometimes I imagine that there’s a binary division going on in contemporary practice that has to do with chromatic versus diatonic. I notice that I tend to listen in a diatonic sense, that I register a pitch as a member of a diatonic scale, even in a non-tonal context.

Division

Practice

Sometimes

The experimentation that I do has a lot to do with tunes and pitches and ways that melodies are put together.

Together

Tunes

Way

There are, however, composers whose music can only be heard in a chromatic sense. George Perle, for example, wrote pieces that you might think of as leaning in a tonal direction but it’s very hard to register a pitch as, say, the sixth degree of a scale, whereas in much of my music I think that’s often relatively easy to do.

Example

Pieces

Thinking

Very often, when you’re listening to a piece for the first time, you’re listening through a model of other pieces that you know. At a certain point, a piece becomes idiosyncratic and you start to understand it on its own terms.

Firsts

Listening

Pieces

When you have performers, there’s the uniqueness of live performance and what performers do in concerts.

Concerts

Performances

Performers

With a piece of classical music by Haydn, Mozart, or Beethoven, on first listening I’m referencing it with other pieces by them that I know. I think that most people do this – they listen to pieces through the filter of pieces they already know.

Listening

People

Thinking

With repeated listenings, a piece eventually becomes its own being. I very often say to students that this is like meeting a person for the first time. When you first meet someone, you reference that person with others who are similar; but, as you get to know that person better, you begin to understand his unique qualities.

Listening

Quality

Unique

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Quotes by Paul Lansky

Paul Lansky

It’s always a thrill for me to see new versions of my pieces on YouTube.

It’s very interesting for me to listen to music with my wife. She’s not a musician but she very often makes comments about pieces in ways that are similar to what I’m thinking.

My perspective on the academic world is very favorable. I did certain kinds of things that I could never have done otherwise.

Sometimes I imagine that there’s a binary division going on in contemporary practice that has to do with chromatic versus diatonic. I notice that I tend to listen in a diatonic sense, that I register a pitch as a member of a diatonic scale, even in a non-tonal context.

The experimentation that I do has a lot to do with tunes and pitches and ways that melodies are put together.

Very often, when you’re listening to a piece for the first time, you’re listening through a model of other pieces that you know. At a certain point, a piece becomes idiosyncratic and you start to understand it on its own terms.

When you have performers, there’s the uniqueness of live performance and what performers do in concerts.

With a piece of classical music by Haydn, Mozart, or Beethoven, on first listening I’m referencing it with other pieces by them that I know. I think that most people do this – they listen to pieces through the filter of pieces they already know.

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