--- In [email protected], Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Musicologically speaking, the use of a drone or "pedal > note" is the simplest, most ancient and perhaps the > most powerful form of harmony and dictates the modal > style of the accompanying melody. Sound/music having a > profound effect on the physiology and perhaps the > environment, this harmonic effect is quite striking. > Parallels between the unchanging unifying nature of > the drone and that of the "absolute" are easily made. ... not forgetting the drone strings of the sitar which presumably predated the bagpipes (and the drone strings of John McLaughlin's guitar which certainly didn't). Wasn't the idea that the mind followed the melody, and when the melody faded down to leave the drone strings, then the mind dropped down to the absolute? Uns. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
