Music_As_Process

Music As Process To use the phrase music as process is to imply that music, like any form of art is better loved and understood when it leads to and is ultimately given purpose and meaning through the listeners understanding. To arrive at this purpose, three main steps are taken. These are composition of the music, its performance and interpretive listening. Even before composition of any piece of music there must be some form of inspiration to do so. The processes used to compose this music are very important to keep in mind during performance so as to give a performance that reflects the music’s purpose. When understood by the listener, the method of composing will help to make the music more coherent. It will also help the listener to place some sort of meaning with it that gives it a purpose to them. I will be discussing two very well known compositions, one being a selection of movements from the Incidental music written to Peer Gynt By Edvard Grieg, the other being the song “I am the Walrus” by the Beatles. Edvard Grieg found it difficult to get inspiration to write incidental music to the verse drama, “Peer Gynt”. He was commissioned by music, meaning, peer, song, one, inspiration, composition, being, text, listener, written, write, lennon, performance, lennon’s, help, grieg, am, walrus, time, three, sitting, purpose, place, part, made, listeners, kill, incidental, having, gynt, even, contain, beatles, within, while