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

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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[Nohea.e]

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

[jmarconiribeiro]

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

[grahamconnorhudsonjameson]

For 5 you could also use mixolodian mode.

[jamesbaxter]

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

[lauraschwartz]

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

[o.ozanbilen]

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