When I find the smoking gun, I'll send it to you. This is a gut feeling based on what I have seen and heard during the past 30 years as a writer and performer. Just a quick recall of the bells and Pavlov's dogs should illustrate what happens with repeated stimulus; If they salivate whenever they hear a bell now, when someone who has systematically and subconsciously shut down their antennae to music, what do you think happens when they get in a concert hall (if they even go)? Do you honestly believe that they still have the same facility to hear/perceive music as well as they could before the saturation syndrome? I'm not talking about the "educated" and disciplined listeners who are dedicated to their appreciation of music (like the readers of the Copland book); I'm talking about the millions of every day folk who are becoming numbed to the experience through no fault of their own. And who will not seek it out as a consequence of the overexposure. If I'm wrong, I don't see anything to support your claim that it's garbage: everything I see leads me to the conclusions I've made.
> > On Feb 19, 2007, at 11:00 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> The whole issue of this incessant ongoing external stimulation >> addiction >> that has been epidemic in US culture for the past several generations is >> killing all the arts and ultimately depriving the every day average person >> from having any kind of truly spiritual artistic experience. > > I'm sorry, but this is garbage. Merely asserting a thing does not make it so, and you have offered no evidence at all to support your > position. I see no decline whatsoever in the ability to experience music deeply throughout the course of my 60-yr. lifetime. Courses in "how to listen" go back at least to the 1950s, and books on the subject much further (example: Copland, _What to Listen For in Music_). > > Andrew Stiller > Kallisti Music Press > http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
