At 06:03 PM 5/25/2007 -0400, Andrew Stiller wrote: >Fascinating. I have always thought about it oppositely: that a pop tune >gives up all its secrets on one listening, whereas with a classical >piece there are often new insights with every hearing.
Yes, for the most part I agree (pop music has 'stuff' too). What I wrote makes more sense in the context of the whole blog entry that day -- about the moment of transformation for the person experiencing the art. If there are a dozen transformational artistic experiences in a lifetime, I'd think that would be a lot -- the artistic/musical version of the reputed "born again" experience. The sentences were the beginning of a longer section here: <http://maltedmedia.com/people/bathory/waam-20060924.html> Dennis _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
