What does music mean to you, auditioning question

[diabola]

Hello,

My music school audition is going to be tomorrow and my friend told me that while at the audition, they asked questions of what does music and piano music mean to you? so I am wondering if people can please give me some suggestions or answers for this question? I have a brief idea of what I am going to say, but my thoughts are very scattered.

Thank you in advance,

diabola

[communist]

It means the world to you

[olszewski]

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[communist]

Why would they ask a silly question like that?  But anyways, why are you asking us? How should we know what music means to you?

The initial question was "what does music mean to YOU"

[electrodoc]

I cannot speak for you or anyone else but music is a language that allows me to communicate with myself and others at a level that is beyond words. It stimulates my intellect and my soul.

[chopinthemaestro]

Music is life. Music is my oxygen supply. Without it, I would die.

To breathe is to live but to play music is to celebrate living. It fills my soul sometimes with joy, sometimes with pain but always with life.

I could not live without music and music cannot live without me.

 

[gnomus]

hi, for my first audition at the music school, in classical piano, the juge ask me why you come at school . I told ''i want to be a rock star'' with a lot of atitude. He shake my hand, he told me '' you begin school in september''
Speak with your heart it's the best.

[opus10no2]

Music is the flaw in the machine.

[pianistimo]

So...you think good music typically comes 'by accident.'  The 'machine' being our brain or mind and that to release good music means to not think about it?  Hmmm.  Maybe I'm putting too much into your words - but i heartily agree.  I mean, for singers it is much simpler than pianists.  They have a song.  They sing it.  They have to phrase it or they'll run out of breath.  If they rush - they'll have a heart attack on stage.  With piano - the temptation is to sometimes get nervous and everything starts going downhill from there.  The leg starts shaking up and down (making correct pedalling a little harder), the mylination of the pyramidal cortex feels like it need some caffeine stimulant, and perhaps the phrasing goes downhill a little with advancing speed. 

Yes. The best music is played at quarter til midnight, when noone is around.  Music means to me, probably, privacy.  The freedom and privacy to play in a very perceptive and auditory way and not worry about who is around.  To completely and utterly abandon oneself in the process and yet still have thought about the interpretation ahead of time so that one doesn't surprise oneself too much.

One last thing, for those who enjoy jazz as well as classical music - i have to say that settings which encourage a sort of laid back feel rather than everyone in the audience judging you is a much different atmosphere.  For instance, you can release that little bit of yourself that makes the piece yours fully and completely.

Perhaps 'the machine' is also the process of learning music.  For children, it's all in fun - and a little at a time.  In college, you are learning a skill that you want to use for job purposes - so the speed at which you learn is determined to be crucial.  Some cannot 'keep up' with the pace and find themselves disillusioned by comparison.  But, in an ideal world/school - nobody would be compared with anyone but themselves.  I think you have to be your own cheerleader in college and just say to yourself 'i can do it' and maintain enthusiasm no matter the level you wish you were or how others play better.  It's actually a good exercise in learning not to be jealous but taking your personal time to get to your personal best.  It doesn't have to be a race, either.  For some, it's really a growing process that must work itself out over decades.

[cmg]

So...you think good music typically comes 'by accident.'  The 'machine' being our brain or mind and that to release good music means to not think about it?  Hmmm.  Maybe I'm putting too much into your words - but i heartily agree.  I mean, for singers it is much simpler than pianists.  They have a song.  They sing it.  They have to phrase it or they'll run out of breath.  If they rush - they'll have a heart attack on stage.  With piano - the temptation is to sometimes get nervous and everything starts going downhill from there.  The leg starts shaking up and down (making correct pedalling a little harder), the mylination of the pyramidal cortex feels like it need some caffeine stimulant, and perhaps the phrasing goes downhill a little with advancing speed. 

Yes. The best music is played at quarter til midnight, when noone is around.  Music means to me, probably, privacy.  The freedom and privacy to play in a very perceptive and auditory way and not worry about who is around.  To completely and utterly abandon oneself in the process and yet still have thought about the interpretation ahead of time so that one doesn't surprise oneself too much.

One last thing, for those who enjoy jazz as well as classical music - i have to say that settings which encourage a sort of laid back feel rather than everyone in the audience judging you is a much different atmosphere.  For instance, you can release that little bit of yourself that makes the piece yours fully and completely.

Perhaps 'the machine' is also the process of learning music.  For children, it's all in fun - and a little at a time.  In college, you are learning a skill that you want to use for job purposes - so the speed at which you learn is determined to be crucial.  Some cannot 'keep up' with the pace and find themselves disillusioned by comparison.  But, in an ideal world/school - nobody would be compared with anyone but themselves.  I think you have to be your own cheerleader in college and just say to yourself 'i can do it' and maintain enthusiasm no matter the level you wish you were or how others play better.  It's actually a good exercise in learning not to be jealous but taking your personal time to get to your personal best.  It doesn't have to be a race, either.  For some, it's really a growing process that must work itself out over decades.

Music, schumusic.  Pianistimo has returned.  Welcome back, dear friend!

[pianistimo]

Thanks, cmg!  really!  Sorry my posts are long.  I know that is probably what nils is/was most upset about.  And, no hard feelings with nils.  He has to do his job.  Weed out the blabbers occasionally and let others have a chance to talk.

Music.  Music is a perception - it all depends on your faculties.

[m]

Sorry my posts are long.  I know that is probably what nils is/was most upset about. 

Of course, I cannot speak for Nils, but most likely I'd actually think the problem is not long posts, but constant trolls and out of topic religious rants, which has ruined many good threads, and as such are disrespectful to the community members. Other than that all is good.

Best, M

[opus10no2]

I didn't mean any of your conclusions, but you were welcome to come to them.

I just think that music is the most mysterious of arts, because it's the thing that makes least sense about humans if you look from an objective evolutionary standpoint.

Most all the other arts are an outgrowth and expression of an important skill in our survival.

The purpose of a sequence of pitches and rhythms means nothing to a machine but it can mean alot of a spirit/soul.

Music is so popular, it is a much more popular art than all the other ones based in practical human abilities.

I suppose music is the biggest sign that we are here to live and not merely survive.

With our heirarchy status as a kind of intellectual apex predator over the whole world, we have much more time on our hands to do more than other animals do.


Still, from a purely survivalistic point of view...our greatest competition and adversary is bacteria... the most simple and machine-like beings out there.