Thursday, May 20, 2010

The Musical Will

Not only can a musical character, personality, anima, entity move and evolve of its own accord, it can proliferate into other works as well. The Musical Work and its constitutive elements can themselves in the most ideal circumstances possess, or tap into, wills of their own: the Musical Will, the force passing through the pitches and instruments and rhythms and the breathing. The soul underneath and at the center of the honest, hard music. The teleological undercurrent that grabs my foot on the beach, endeavoring to drag me back into the sea.