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Jun 29, 2015 - 6:08 AM
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OnyaBirri
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...An album, if there is one, is an afterthought, a by-product and has nothing to do with the music's purpose. Therefore it should not be critically assessed by its stand alone qualities.
Then film score albums should not be released.
A text needs to be judged on its own terms, and the consumer is under no obligation to consult a second text to critique the first. Hearing the music within the context of the film may inform one's appreciation of the music, but it is not an essential step in the process, any more than reviewing Duke Ellington's sketches are necessary to appreciate one of his finished albums.
If a composer is hired to score a film about 17th-century Scotland and asked to score it for bagpipes, (s)he may rise to the task and produce a brilliant score for that film. But there is no way in hell that I'm going to uncork a bottle of wine and suffer through 40 minutes of bagpipe music at home, just because the composer did the job well.
A film score album is like any other album. It either succeeds on its own terms, or it fails, or falls someplace on that spectrum. The film is irrelevant under these circumstances.
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...An album, if there is one, is an afterthought, a by-product and has nothing to do with the music's purpose. Therefore it should not be critically assessed by its stand alone qualities.
Then film score albums should not be released.
A text needs to be judged on its own terms, and the consumer is under no obligation to consult a second text to critique the first. Hearing the music within the context of the film may inform one's appreciation of the music, but it is not an essential step in the process, any more than reviewing Duke Ellington's sketches are necessary to appreciate one of his finished albums.
Well put. My thoughts precisely. When released on an album, the music MUST work on its own. Otherwise, it should never have been released in the first place.
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