From the course: Photography: Advanced Composition
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Using your sixth sense for composition
From the course: Photography: Advanced Composition
Using your sixth sense for composition
(piano music) - What you just heard, in music theory, is called an unresolved cadence. Well, it's an example of an unresolved cadence. I don't think I need to explain why that word unresolved is in there. It's pretty obvious. There's a story that's attributed, variously, to anyone from Mozart to Beethoven to Schumann. The story varies, depending on who it is, and in some tellings of the story, the composer in question is a child, and some he's an adult. Whoever's telling it always tells it the same way. The composer's asleep, and someone goes to the piano and plays an unresolved cadence on the piano, and that's so jarring that, even in his sleep, the composer has to wake up and storm off to the piano, and resolve the cadence. Who knows whether that actually happened, but I find something authentic about that story, because there are some musical concepts that are universal. Sure, here in the West we have one set of scales, and Eastern cultures have another set of scales, but then…
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