Stan Kleppinger
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Stan Kleppinger
@skleppinger
associate professor, music theory, Glenn Korff School of Music, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; general nuisance
Lincoln, NE Katılım Mayıs 2013
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This is the shape of a gap I’m trying to fill on my arm with a tattoo. Please submit your ideas as a rough sketch overlaid on this image, and I will get the most-liked reply tattooed immediately
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@tonyprinciotti This is at least the second time you've claimed Copland lived nine years longer than he did. And made this bizarre, baseless, claim about how the "avant-garde" kept him from being compositionally productive.
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Although Aaron Copland lived until 1999, he found that his creative fertility had all but vanished. He later said that "It was as if someone had simply turned off a faucet." His lack of sympathy with the avant-garde styles then dominant in new music may have played a role.
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@tonyprinciotti Isn't this akin to saying "the utility of rear-view mirrors is limited by the fact that they don't show you the road in front of you"?
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A working knowledge of Western Music Theory can be very helpful; for me, it's indispensable for learning scores. But its utility is limited by the fact that it usually codifies past common practices, instead of charting the future. It's more description than prescription.
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Isn't this a straw man? Outside of a composition pedagogy exercise, is there anyone who seriously advocates for "using abstract music theory as a prescriptive basis for composing"?
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Using abstract musical theory as a prescriptive basis for composing strikes me as oddly naive. I sympathize with Schopenhauer's view of music as the art that most directly connects us with our primitive, irrational selves. In that context, reasoning can actually be an impediment.
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Tracy Chapman performs "Fast Car" live at Wembley in 1988
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Congratulations to a few of our brothers who were named All-State Honorable Mention by the Omaha World Herald.
Y’all deserve it!
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Thank you @paulhammelNE and @NE_Examiner for the fine feature!
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We are hiring a new TT music theorist at UNL. Please disseminate widely, consider applying, and contact me if you have questions! employment.unl.edu/postings/89039…
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5 most pathetic professions:
5. Maestro
4. Doctor
3. Lawyer
2. Teacher/Professor
1. Librarian
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I agree that the requirement to read sheet music for music school is unfair.
Unlike many of the professors here, I don’t agree that reading music is “trivially easy,” because if it was, you’d just spend an afternoon on YouTube, and the problem would be solved.
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