Say "Musicality" to anyone at the moment and they seem to go running for the hills
, but this is a topic that has been on my mind since the last jive masters competition so I thought I'd ask:
Is there a 'right' and a 'wrong' to musical interpretation for a specific piece of music?
I know when I listen to any given piece of music there are parts (whether it's a certain beat or a certain instrument or whatever) that stand out to me, but I also know - from various dances that have not gone so well - that other people do not necessarily hear the same things as me in a piece of music.
This is all well and good, variety being the spice of life and all that, but there are situations when this becomes a bit of a hurdle...
For example - there are certain dancers that I hear the girls raving about, they tell me that "'so and so' is a wonderful dancer" and go all gooey over them - but I just don't get it
. Whenever I dance with those people I feel like I'm on a completely different planet because, even though there's only one song playing, in our heads we're dancing to completely different parts of the music and it doesn't work at all.
Another example is to go back to the jive masters example again - in this competition
a lot of emphasis was placed on musicality, and I heard on numerous occasions members of the audience (aka the judges) commenting on a lack of musical interpretation from the competitiors. It strikes me that this is unfair, as the competitors may be dancing completely musically - just not to the same 'bits' ('highlights I suppose I should call them) that the audience-member heard.
The only way I can see the resolve this is for everyone that dances to sit around with every piece of music and agree which parts of the music should be highlighted
.
Without going to this rediculous extreme, how are we to find the 'rights' and 'wrongs' of musicality?
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