For what it's worth...

...here's my opinion. Well, now that the vast majority of anybody who's actually reading this is completely turned off and walking away from their computer screens with disgust at the thought of actually hearing (reading?) my opinion, I shall continue to you, my few loyal and masochistic readers, to berate you about about Stuff. This particular post I want to be about classical music (as many of my past posts have been). What can I say, it's an area of the vast world of knowledge that I know. Particularly though, I'd like to focus on modern music. According to one of my music teachers whose input I value greatly, modern and postmodern music are designed to, instead of being pleasing to the ear or offering some sort of intellectual refuge, to depict a scene from everyday life. Some such scenes may be like a cat chasing a mouse. However, in striving to generate the image of one of these scenes, I believe modern classical music looses sight of some of it's goals. What is the purpose of music? What is music? In my mind, music serves one of humanity's forms of escape (which I'll get into in the next post). In that function, music should be both intellectually compelling and pleasing to hear. However, because of their intense focus on recreating the scene or their emotions during this scene, the music produced becomes almost devoid of feeling, like a robotic grinding. Very often, this music is grating as well, have little to no melodic value. Granted, there may be some value in the understanding of the scene through musical interpretation, but what may be gleaned from that is far outweighed (at least in my mind) by the complete lack of musicality of most modern pieces.