Assuming a priori understanding of most of the previous parts of the series, we can say: “I understand, yes yes…” “music is the sounds that make up a piece of music”, that “it is a melody written down in notes”, that “the first and last sounds of >>A day in the life<< by the Beatles are not important”, and “that the interpretation is not important”…
… this is one mystery that haunts me – these are the so-called progressive rock suites (I removed the word “rock” because of Komendarek’s suites, which tend to be less rock-like. I had to leave the word “progressive” because originally the word “suite” meant something else). I mean such pieces as “Bohemian Rapsody” by the Queen, “Ten najpiękniejszy dzień” by the Exodus, “Spring Impressions” by W. Komendarek. (To this I can also add the beautifully matched “Abbey Road Medley” by the Beatles, composed of several pieces.)
What’s fantastic about them? Fragments of individual songs (this probably applies to other genres as well, but here it’s significant) have few common parts. In the rock “Bohemian Rapsody” there’s a choir at one point, in the rock “Ten najpiękniejszy dzień” there’s a waltz, in the electronic “Spring Impressions” they have a classicist part and a rock part, and “Abbey road Medley” is meshed, among other things, in different keys. Despite this, some element that I don’t understand (form? content? structure?) makes everything come together as a whole…
I don’t understand music… for me it’s “colorful magic”…
The book also has many different elements, but they are connected by the plot and message. I can remind you here of the view of John Parker, among others, that “music is a language”, and as we know, it can tell a plot. I can quote here the thoughts from the beginning of the cycle (I don’t understand music) that I don’t know whose language it is and what plot it expresses…
Also John Parker, as St Celfer composed almost two years ago a kind of progressive suite which he called: Forcing function (auralmeet). In just 4 minutes he fit three parts in which the first is dense (focused), slightly nervous (tense) and consists of two colors. It moves to the second, more esoteric and dispersed, in which from calm it moves to a kind of fight of numerous sounds. At the end it moves to standard glissandi typical of Step.4D Lives I, embellished with numerous glitches and additions such as “sound of comets”.