![]() Or that, or that one, or that one put together according to a plan. ![]() Now all music is a combination of sounds like that one. It's all the same note-only with a different sound. It's just a plain old F sharp of a B flat.Ī sound, that's all, higher or lower, louder or softer-a sound that can seem very different if I play it Rocket! Bang! Picture!īut if I play a note, one note all alone. Because if I say one single word all by itself to you, like "rocket", immediately you have an idea you see a picture in your mind. Why should they be fun to listen to? I don't know it's a part of human nature to like to listen to music. None of them are about anything, but they're all fun to listen to. For instance, take this piece by Chopin:īeautiful, isn't it? But what's it about? Nothing. Well, what ARE they about? They're about music. The notes don't tell you any ideas these notes aren't about burning your finger, or sputniks, or lampshades, or rockets, or anything. But if I play notes, some notes on the piano, like this You get the idea that I burned my finger, that it hurts, that I might not be able to play the piano any more, or that I have a loud ugly voice when I scream, lots of different ideas like that. If I say to you "Ow, I burned my finger!", then immediately you get an idea from what I said or some ideas. When you say "What does it mean?", what you're really saying is "What is it trying to tell me?", or "What ideas does it make me have?" Just like words when you hear words, you get ideas from them. Now, It's a funny thing about this meaning business - in music, anyway. And that's the question we're going to try to answer today. When we ask "what does it mean - what does this piece of music mean?", then we're asking a very hard question. Music is notes, beautiful notes and sounds put together in such a way that we get pleasure out of listening to them, and that's all there is to it. Stories are not what the music means at all. You see, no matter how many time people tell you stories about what music means, forget them. When she heard me play this piece, she said - "That's the Lone Ranger song, Hi-ho Silver!" Well, I hate to disappoint her, and you too, but it isn't about the Lone Ranger at all. I know my little daughter Jamie, who's five years old, who's sitting up there, agrees with you. That's just what I thought you'd say: cowboys, bandits, horses, the wild west. Now, what do you think that music is all about? Can you tell me? Original CBS Television Network Broadcast Date: 18 January 1958
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