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| DAVID THYSSEN |
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| I believe that music is a form of art like no other. In no other type of artistic endeavor will you find such a varying breadth of styles, textures, colors, and emotions then in music. It is the very fabric which lines our souls and the one universal language capable of communicating feelings and thoughts that no amount of literature or canvas could ever equally satisfy. Still more, in no other form of art will you find such heated debate as to what's "appropriate" and to what's "correct" as in music. The 20th century saw a breakdown in old values. Diatonic and tonal harmony gave way to chromatic harmony, atonality and dodecaphonicism in a manner similar to the transfer from organum to ars nova and homophony to polyphony. As those were revolutions in their own respective eras, we are reaching the end of another revolution in our own. A second Ars Nova, if you will. The final end to tonality and beginning of another period of evolution in music, incorporating all the innovations and techniques developed by 20th century 'revolutionaries' into new mediums and forms in this new millenium. We've come to a point where all that's "new" in art music must now be thoroughly |
| explored, as Monteverdi and Bach explored their new mediums in their own times. Music has indeed always existed in periods of revolution and evolution, as have many of the visual arts. The 20th century was revolution. Rebellion. Open warfare against the old and outdated. And now, in this new millenium of ours, we begin anew with a new system, a new set of ideals and techniques, to evolve more. And more. Until, perhaps several centuries from now, as it was with tonality, all has been said with this order and another takes it's place. From "Ars Nova: The New Evolution", by David Thyssen |
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| David Thyssen is a composer of modern art music. He expresses himself through all musical mediums from opera and ballet to symphonic composition to chamber and solo work as well. He is currently working on several works, the largest of which is "Spirits of Olympus", a six-movement suite for symphony orchestra and chorus which uses the poetry of the ancient Greek - Pindar - to musically depict the five 'spirits' of the Olympic Games. It is being composed in honor of the 2004 games in Hellenikon, Greece. |
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