{"id":5955,"date":"2020-08-14T11:18:28","date_gmt":"2020-08-14T01:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emotemuse.com\/g\/?p=5955"},"modified":"2020-08-14T11:19:06","modified_gmt":"2020-08-14T01:19:06","slug":"form-your-own-interpretation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=5955","title":{"rendered":"Form your own interpretation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I have often made the point in masterclasses that students should not listen to lots of recordings of a piece they are learning.  I&#8217;m always a little horrified when I hear a student say, &#8220;My teacher told me to learn the Chopin G minor Ballade, so I went to the library and took out eight recordings.&#8221;  To me this limits a student&#8217;s horizon even before the eye has been raised to it; it closes off paths even before the putting on of shoes.  (Eight different editions?  Well <em>that&#8217;s <\/em>a different story!)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Of course, it was impossible to do this until recently.  A conducting learning a Beethoven symphony in 1902 had to sit down at a desk or piano and &#8230; learn the score.  The danger now is that we&#8217;ve become lazy and can merely absorb other people&#8217;s &#8220;Beethoven Experience&#8221; rather than living through our own.  It&#8217;s much harder work to draw the map ourselves, but I&#8217;m convinced we learn more about the inner topography that way, even if the first draft can send us on a false path or two.  And it&#8217;s from this <em>study <\/em>that we can go on to have original ideas that are neither copied nor capricious.  <\/p><cite>Stephen Hough (2019) <em>Rough Ideas: Reflections on Music and More. <\/em>London: Faber &amp; Faber, p. 29.<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have often made the point in masterclasses that students should not listen to lots of recordings of a piece they are learning. I&#8217;m always a little horrified when I hear a student say, &#8220;My teacher told me to learn the Chopin G minor Ballade, so I went to the library and took out eight [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[670,1513],"class_list":["post-5955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-performance-practice","tag-interpretation","tag-steven-hough"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5955"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5958,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5955\/revisions\/5958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}