Stpehen,
thanks for really admitting you did not even try.
> I must say, however, that beim
> besten Willen und Gewissen I simply cannot detect any similarity
> whatsoever beyond the fact that both pieces are music, consist of notes
> played simultaneously or successively, and are played on musical
> instruments.
This is mean sarcasm which shows that you are ill-spirited, and it
renders all your "arguments" nil anyway.
> some people who are highly intelligent and
> extremely well educated in music history and theory, as I know from
> reading their posts for years, even suspect that your are not at all
> serious and your basic thesis is just a bad joke carried too far.
And this is the classic "authority" argument. It's not a valid argument.
It is telling that only the people who don't like it seem to waste time
with this topic. As if they feel the need to combat the thesis.
I wonder what this means.
Anyway, this discussion is over.
Am 10.08.2018 um 19:51 schrieb stephen arndt:
Tristan,
You seem to believe that those "who listen to the tracks are too afraid
to speak up." I have not listened to all your tracks, but I did listen
to some of them and made a good-faith effort to hear the similarities
you say you hear. To date, I have not commented, not because I was
afraid to do so, but because I do not enjoy such disputations, which
often turn sarcastic and disrespectful. I also cannot recall that anyone on the list has said that
he or she can hear any similarities, though perhaps I missed the message
from someone who did. Some people who are highly intelligent and
extremely well educated in music history and theory, as I know from
reading their posts for years, even suspect that your are not at all
serious and your basic thesis is just a bad joke carried too far. To me,
listening to your mash-ups is like sitting in a crowded restaurant that
plays music too loud and has two televisions blaring, each on a
different channel. The result is cacophony. I stopped listening to them
because the experience was just too unpleasant.
On February 8th, you wrote: " . . . I'm leaving the lutelist. This is
just a waste of time." You didn't keep that promise.
Today you wrote: "In the future I will refrain from posting this topic."
I hope you will be a man of your word and keep this promise.
Stephen
-----Original Message----- From: Tristan von Neumann
Sent: Friday, August 10, 2018 12:20 PM
To: lutelist Net
Subject: [LUTE] Pièce de Résistance
Since it seems that exactly no one is interested and the ones who listen
to the tracks are too afraid to speak up, here's my final offer.
In the future I will refrain from posting this topic.
https://soundcloud.com/tristan-von-neumann/bartolomeo-tromboncino-frottola-ostinato-voi-seguire-raga-kamod-eri-jaane-na-doongi-nirali-kartik
If there's still someone interested, please contact me directly.
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