Talent

Trollheart · 01-06-2016, 03:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Tristan Geoff

I think it's more of a songwriting thing. If you're good at your craft and you can make songs with some substance, you're talented in my books. This rule can apply to stuff I don't care for too. Even if I can't feel the music, I can understand what kind of work goes into creating it.

But how then do you account for the likes of classical pianists or violinists, or those in an orchestra even, who never write their own music (or at least, never perform it in public if they do write it, so it remains unheard which is kind of the same end result) but can lovingly interpret Chopin or Bach or Dvorak? Surely they have to be rated as talented, even if they never created anything themselves?

Tristan_Geoff · 01-06-2016, 03:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Trollheart

But how then do you account for the likes of classical pianists or violinists, or those in an orchestra even, who never write their own music (or at least, never perform it in public if they do write it, so it remains unheard which is kind of the same end result) but can lovingly interpret Chopin or Bach or Dvorak? Surely they have to be rated as talented, even if they never created anything themselves?

Well of course, their "craft" is the recreation of music. You kind of just answered your own question with "lovingly interpret".

Black Francis · 01-06-2016, 03:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Trollheart

But how then do you account for the likes of classical pianists or violinists, or those in an orchestra even, who never write their own music (or at least, never perform it in public if they do write it, so it remains unheard which is kind of the same end result) but can lovingly interpret Chopin or Bach or Dvorak? Surely they have to be rated as talented, even if they never created anything themselves?

In my view they're talented musicians but not composers. idk why they don't choose to be composers. it can't be for lack of skills so it must be they lack the drive to create something of their own. i really don't understand that perspective, i learned how to play guitar to make my own songs not play covers forever.

**Frownland** · 01-06-2016, 03:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Black Francis

In my view they're talented musicians but not composers. idk why they don't choose to be composers. it can't be for lack of skills so it must be they lack the drive to create something of their own. i really don't understand that perspective, i learned how to play guitar to make my own songs not play covers forever.

For the classical world, it's much much much more difficult to (1) get an people to play your work if you're doing more than solo stuff and (2) get an audience than to just play the classics.