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Where Is Modern Symphony Going?

Recently I read an interesting article on theAnother way to ask the question is this: What
topic of the modern symphony. However, itgives a listener the impression of a
left me wondering. The author spoke ofsymphony? Let's say that you turn on a radio
titans of symphony in the twentieth century,in the middle of a piece you never heard
yet Prokofiev, Honegger, and Shostakovichbefore. If it's a symphony, there's a very
completely escaped his attention. Was this angood chance that you will recognize it as
accident? It seems like the mighty stream ofsuch. But  how  do  you  know?
modern symphonic music of these composers has
not been appreciated enough in the criticalIs it by the sound of a large orchestra? Then
literature of European music. Morewhat about symphonies with smaller
appreciation of the atonal avant-garde andorchestras? Is it by its monumental way of
dodecaphony (Schoenberg's music and theexpression? Then what about lyrical and
Second Viennese School, and late works ofintimate kinds of symphony? It seems that
Stravinsky), but less of the tonal andthese features of the symphonic genre still
traditionally  melodic  approach.do  not  define  it.
Another question: Should we write symphoniesIt seems that the scope of what symphony can
for the public, or only for an elitepossibly encompass is incredibly wide. Of
audience? Is it possible that New Agecourse, there are basic similarities of
composers have a historic mission to fostermusical form. For a very long time the most
the public's experience of the highest musicdistinctive characteristic of symphony as a
genre - to share it with people "notmusic genre was the sonata form in the first
trained," or "unprepared" for a professionalmovement. But like everything else, genres
music experience? Where else in music todayevolve and our perceptions do too. Shouldn't
does the public have a such a chance towe start searching deeper? Really, an average
submerge itself in the ocean of orchestralperson wouldn't appreciate how thesis,
sound without fear of being lost, and toantithesis, development and synthesis can
actually emotionally enjoy it? The answer iscreate a music form ( and even these are not
New Age! And of course, in the music ofnecessarily all a part of symphony anymore ).
cinematography. But soundtracks shouldn'tStill all human beings seem to appreciate
count because they are not free from visualsymphonic music on its different levels. So,
images, and so they can't be experienced inis there something else, something global,
the  same  purely  musical  way.rooted in our human sensibilities by which we
recognize a symphony, as if by a certain
The electronic era has created possibilitieslanguage or code? Was it invented, or just
beyond imagination. We can experience soundsdiscovered, at a certain level of
remotely recognized as orchestral, orcivilization? Could it be like recollecting
something absolutely new with no connectionsomething you knew before, but have forgotten
to anything we have heard before. Symphoniesfrom not using it, so it feels more like an
written with this new kind of sound - is itessential part of our reflection? Does it
something  yet  to  come?have to do with how we feel TIME? Because
basically, symphony as a form very much
Next question: Is there anything common amongdepends on how it comes into existence,
all the symphonies ever written, startingchanges, develops, and transforms in TIME.
with the era of classicism? Considering theThat's probably why we can relate to
differences of the centuries - artisticsymphonic music - as a reflection of our own
styles, ethnic or class-based bonds,traveling through life. If this is an answer,
religious or cultural priorities, andthen classification of a symphony as a
personalities of composers - is therecomplex musical composition for an orchestra
anything that unites all the symphonies, notusually composed in four movements, at least
only on the level of the definition of theone of which is in sonata form, is outdated,
symphony as a music genre or form, butisn't  it?
fundamentally  deeper?
Lots of questions!



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