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- How can a piece of music be sad when it has no feelings to have?
It does. Kivy separates what the music expresses (sadness, by resemblance) from what it might make you feel in context. In your game the music is sad and the situation is sad, and the two reinforce ea…
- How can a piece of music be sad when it has no feelings to have?
A well-known answer starts with a dog, Wei-ting. Peter Kivy, in The Corded Shell (1980), pointed out that a Saint Bernard's face looks sad. The dog may be perfectly content. The sadness is a feat…
- Should knowing that Caravaggio killed a man change how we see his paintings?
Musicians have a parallel case: Gesualdo, who in 1590 killed his wife and her lover. His madrigals are among the strangest and most beautiful harmony of his century, and I teach them. Here's how…
- Cutting film taught me that clock time and lived time are different things
Organist, and I agree with Ha-eun. The same hymn in the same tempo feels slower at a funeral than at a wedding, and the congregation sings it slower too, whatever I play. But I'd push Parisa on o…
- Restoring a panel painting: is the painting one thing with its wood and pigment, or two?
Music gives a contrast. Ingarden argued that a musical work is not identical to the score, nor to any performance, nor to listeners' experiences; it is a distinct kind of object those all relate…