[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: "Strike every chord that you feel" because you're deaf, and to deaf ears there's no wrong chord. "As I wrote recently in the discussion about musical literacy, music is in the head, and that's how Beethoven could continue to compose even though his ears couldn't fully receive the sound waves. So it's not that he could accept any chord because he couldn't hear it, but rather that Beethoven was an iconoclast who challenged traditional harmonic practice. If it "sounded" good to him in his head, if he felt it, then screw convention."
Surely you didn't think i was talking about Beethoven striking the wrong chord, Fred? I was talking about "The person" in Joni's song. I fully understand your saying regarding "music is in the head". And in a way i agree. But as far as i know, deaf people, who were born deaf, didn't compose music (and if it happenes these days it's because rules to composing music in modern times are wide open). It all begins in HEARING music, then comes to composing. All great composers heard music, needless to say. Only then could they relate to notes on paper and "hear music in their heads". Beethoven wasn't happy at all when music turned into "a head thing" only for him. Do you think that if everyone in the whole world, both composers and listeners, could read notes and hear "head music" they wouldn't need ears? I don't. What if Joni went deaf, perish the thought? Do you think she'd have no idea what her music wuold sound like? Again, i don't. I'm sorry, but saying that music is in the head may be true, but it's a part of the whole truth - if there is any. Nuriel > >-Fred Simon _____________________________________________________________ Free email, web pages, news, entertainment, weather and MORE! Check out -------------------------------> http://wowmail.com
