At 04:25 PM 2/4/05 -0800, Brad Beyenhof wrote: >On Sat, 05 Feb 2005 00:14:19 +0000, Owain Sutton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >>There have been some pretty intense commentaries about this >> >>tension-release technique being sexually analogous and >> >>gender-specific, and that in recent years, women composers have >> >>emancipated their writing from the build-to-climax model implicit in >> >>harmonic and architectural tension-release, and that women listeners >> >>are drawn to the sound of the newer paradigm. >> >> I'm just hoping that this whole description is a joke. If it's not, >> then God help us. > >It was. I've learned to take most anything Dennis B-K says with a >grain of salt, or a least a couple of smileys.
You should always do that. I really know nothing. I'm an observer and pretty much of a skeptic about Western culture. But I really didn't make idea that up. And hearing it certainly got me to look at the kind of music that was coming into the show from the nonpop world. I make no claims, but I'm always interested. Who can tell if it's true at this point so soon in the cultural shift, if there is one? I heard an extended talk late last year by Leonard Schlain, who claims to have identified the feminization of civilization because of television's iconography and computers' use of two-handed keyboard work, which have together moved society toward a gender-free God and interest in Native American culture because they light up the intuitive brain hemisphere. Dennis _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
