Inside the score -- creating meaning in music | Scott O'Neil | TEDxMileHigh

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  • čas přidán 14. 07. 2014
  • This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. How do composers put meaning into music? In this amazing talk, Scott O'Neil takes us through the many layers of meaning in an original piece of his own creation.
    Scott O'Neil is driven by a strong commitment to making music of the highest quality accessible to young audiences. Scott is prominently featured with the Colorado Symphony as conductor and creator of the "Inside the Score" series, in addition to appearances on each of the masterworks, family, pops and holiday series. Previously he served as associate conductor for the Utah Symphony, which he joined in August 2000, and has guest conducted symphonies across the country. Scott studied piano performance at the Oberlin College Conservatory, served as the assistant conductor of the Eastman School Symphony and Philharmonia Orchestras at the Eastman School of Music, and earned a master's in orchestral conducting at Rice University, where he was the director of the Campanile Orchestra, a community/university orchestra. In the spring of 2003, Scott was selected by the League of American Orchestras to conduct an orchestra comprised of members of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and advanced students from the University of Southern California in Synergy, a program created to promote young, contemporary composers.
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Komentáře • 15

  • @grahamconnorhudsonjameson8834

    For 5 you could also use mixolodian mode.

  • @netsurfer10000
    @netsurfer10000 Před 10 lety +1

    Very inspiring speech.
    5, yo!

  • @jmarconiribeiro4762
    @jmarconiribeiro4762 Před 5 lety +1

    Why do we love music? Only because of the combination of sounds, that we can enjoy and because they are pleasantly recognizable by the brain? This is aesthetic, and okay for those who like it. But listening to music may be in a kind of sense not listening to notes, but music. Something that is in the field of epiphany .... Sorry for my english

  • @lauraschwartz9047
    @lauraschwartz9047 Před 7 lety +8

    Is it just me or did his music sound uncannily similar to John Williams in Jurassic Park and I think I heard a little Star Wars in there too

    • @SteveAstronaut
      @SteveAstronaut Před 4 lety +1

      It's the sound of money.

    • @codascheuer8426
      @codascheuer8426 Před rokem

      @@SteveAstronaut that’s a very cold and cynical interpretation of this music. I mean, did you even watch this video that explained the meaning and creating tangible ideas with music? Or maybe you just refuse to let light like this into your life

  • @jamesbaxter2411
    @jamesbaxter2411 Před 9 lety +9

    sorry but i agree with the first guy that there is no meaning in music. If he had not told us to think of creation when he played we would have thought of many different things. For example if you think of the theme "Space" when he plays it constructs a whole new meaning. Music can only express emotion but nothing more. the meaning is what we all give it therefore it cannot have any true absolute meaning. This is not to say it doesn't have purpose, however, for the purpose of music is to express emotion. If you were to take away something as simple as the title of a piece of music and replace it you would have a new meaning in that song. Notes only carry meaning based on our own experience. We manipulate music based on many things. A composer can only put emotion into music but everyone will have there own meaning. If he had not told us "Arrow" or "Creation" or "common man" we wouldn't be able to get that information. He is the one who gave it meaning for us, but the music itself

    • @DriftSpaceZero
      @DriftSpaceZero Před 9 lety +8

      A White Kid
      The title of the talk is "CREATING" meaning in music; Scott is not asserting that anything has inherent meaning, but is talking about how we imbue music with meaning, and how the act of using experience, observation, and repetition creates meaning. If you had thought of your "many different things" without being told what Scott used/thought about to create this music: you're still "creating" meaning for this music yourself, even if it's not the same as Scott's meaning; Scott just happens to be able to explain and repeat his meaning using a set of rules with which he is familiar. Spoken and written languages are the same way; if one is not familiar with the rules: it means nothing and makes no sense. It is because people agree on a common (though ultimately made-up) set of rules for language, that we communicate successfully.

    • @jamesbaxter2411
      @jamesbaxter2411 Před 9 lety +1

      The Timesmyth i agree with that!

  • @Nohea.e92
    @Nohea.e92 Před 3 lety +8

    shoutout my music teacher for making me watch this snooze fest while he doesn't update grades all semester

  • @kyreshlcsw2229
    @kyreshlcsw2229 Před 7 lety +1

    no arron copland fan fare

  • @AliMinaian
    @AliMinaian Před 7 lety +2

    Pretty Prog. haha

  • @bryanmtsweni
    @bryanmtsweni Před 3 lety

    Selmasongs overture

  • @o.ozanbilen7113
    @o.ozanbilen7113 Před rokem

    when you don't have it but you still have to compose ı guess...😒