The Cadenza marked 'interpretation'

Interpretation
The aspect of music arising from the difference between notation, which preserves a written record of the music, and performance, which brings the musical experience into renewed existence. While traditionally, since the Romantic era, interpretation has been seen as dependent on a performer's view of the work and his capacity for presenting a plausible view of it to an audience, more recently it has also been taken to embrace an understanding of the composer's own aural vision of the work as affected by the conventions of notation and performance of his time (as embraced by the concept of Performing practice). While there is no substitute for a knowledge of performing practice, the insights brought by intuitive musicianship and trained imagination to the expression of a work are central to its interpretation.

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mm...I sit here eating pan de sal [a dinner roll for all you non educated non fillipinos D:] and drinking berry juice....and just decided to FINALLY type this blog. [by the way, I apologize so much for my stupidity in my previous blog]

I've been wanting to type what I feel interpretation is, how I feel that my weird way of interpretation connects music, definitions don't cut it, its actually hard to explain interpretation, for one thing, there are two types of interpretations;

[1] Technical interpretation. It serves as 90 % of the worlds interpretation, yes I use it too, I feel that it draws out the OTHER interpretation we have in mind. Technical interpretation is a matter of how short a note is played, what dynamic, what kind of style, tempo. In a nutshell, thats what technical interpretation to me is.

[2] Musical interpretation Now, I feel that this is what really lets the emotions out, captures the audience's breath, people may have the counter argument that I am wrong. The technical aspect is what captures their breath. In my opinion its true and not true. now, the interpretation we give is what helps us with the technical one, its what makes us have OUR reasons to play notes the way we want to. Its the one that summons the story, or experience or statement. Or it replies to questions the crowd has, it saves lives even...:).

Now, what IS so important about interpretaiton??
Well...its the music

ITS MUSIC, interpretation is music, in a musical aspect.

Its the treasure we hide in the treasure box [the music is the box] its secrets, moments only we can unlock, statements, our PERSPECTIVE, we wish people to see. Interpretation is what makes a musician move [does it make lang lang move O_o] its what makes a performance unforgettable, every concert unique.

I think by interpretation music into our lives it helps us become closer with others, ourselves, music, and helps personality too :) it also gives us different perspectives on things.

I'll post an example of my kind of interpretations later on. But I hope you understand how important it is. I mean, I think music would be boring, if it was played in its steretypical genre.

Why should one play beethoven's fifth symphony ever so angrily when he never really was angry writing it...ignoring he was mad and deaf, he interprets it as something else. Music is the key to what opens up the box we walk in, it releases us into life....

so just because his fifth symphony is in a minor, does one have to be sad?

When the P.A.A auditioners were having a meeting back in eighth grade about the audition, mr. a turned on beethoven's fifth symphony, the answers were stereotypcal, "Its angry, its in minor, its not very happy...". Thats not the only feeling forceful notes can give, immediately as the song started I thought, "determination, its forceful, and yet such a beautiful thing to have...". I was so scared to raise my hand, but after mr. a talked a bit in response to their response on beethoven's fifth, I raised my hand, to be honest, I put my hand down atleast ten times, it was shaking like mad, mr. a noticed me and I said these words silencing the room [DID IT!?]

"Why does his symphony have to be sad? Can't it be interpretated into the feeling of being determined?"

why did I say this?

Because it was a while before that I realized this; you're the HAPPIEST person in the world, you're playing the world's most DEPRESSING symphony/concerto/w/e [ex mozart's requeim]. WHY SHOULD WE FORCE OURSELVES TO BE SAD?! I feel it adds even more stress, why can't we interpret a sad piece into a piece of hope? I know, Mozart died, this was his funeral piece [reffering to his requiem] but like my view on historic deaths, shouldn't we respect them by carrying on their music? By celebrating their works?

at the same time, this is WRONG, I realize that now. I would say to people, "Oh think of something sad, a sad experience", talk about being a hypocrite! But, well...man my head hurts...um. I know we should interpret the way the music sounds as well, what images, what thoughts it may strike up...but what will you do if your mind is in happy mode? sad mode? I think one way to preserve classical music is to present it differently, to change what people hear, to make every concert remembered in ones life, to make it unique....

Of course, theres the problem of working with an orchestra, its too diverse if not everyone is happy...of course it depends on communication...conductors? do you job here! :) [COUGHH CHAZ!!!! ^_^]

so when I ask you to interpret...listen to the song and what feelings does it strike up, before you play it, what feeling does it strike? Whatever it does, at any moment before every concert...do it, make every concert unique...so I ask you this

what message do you wish to give out?

this is my introduction into interpretation <3