Re: Music is not political (Was Re: music is political)

["Jon Southwood" <jsouthwood@gmail.com>]

Worked well for Penderecki when he re-titled his "Etude for Strings"
to "Threnody (for the victims of Hiroshima)".

There a plenty of examples of 'politically-charged' instrumental works
from composers as diverse as Beethoven, Messiaen, Shostakovich,
Schnittke, etc. There are also plenty of examples of instrumental
works whose 'politically-charged-ness' is in the ear of the beholder
and not in the intent of the composer.

Cheers,
Jon Southwood

On 4/3/06, daniel stevenson <stillllscary@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> what if this non lryical song has a title?maybe "the 19th of april"
> or"butterfly tree"how  about "the poison bushes"?if a listener were
> familiar with the topic of an instrumental song the the music itself 
>would
> become very politcal...a tranquil melody suddenly overpowered by a 
>rumbling