Ending without End
摘要
Visualization of music is the first theme here. Dukas was inspired by Goethe’s ballad “Der Zauberlehrling” and composed “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice”. Later Disney made a trick film to visualize this story, a remarkable achievement at the time. There are many pieces of music that express animal features: and behavior: “Flying of the Bumblebee” in a piece of Rimsky-Korsakov, a bird, a wolf, a duck and a cat in “Peter and the Wolf” by Prokofiev, and 12 animals in “The Carnival of the Animals” by Saint-Saëns. Among animals the birds are the most commonly used species for inspiring music, from the Middle Ages to the era of New Music. The second theme in this Chapter is the role of noise in music. Debussy expressed the sound of the sea (noise) and composed “La Mer”. Other composers recorded noises such as those stemming from trains and used this directly for their compositions. Some try to compose music from a sequences of symbols and numbers (serial music). We consider the music after 1910, and ponder the future of music: Has the resource of music expired? If not, where can we find one nowadays? How can we find them? Let us be optimistic and have a nice time when reading this volume!