On Thursday 25 June 2008 3:28 PM Squonk writes to Joe: Hi Joe, Very interesting. I like this, which makes it difficult for me to tell you this, but i've been studying the history of music and the octave may be our chosen system but not an absolute system. 'The Pelican History of Music' ed. Alec Robertson and Denis Stevens in 3 volumes is a good treatment of the subject. Indian raga, for example, seems to be more dynamic than our diatonic music, in that it has a drone centre, 70+ raga scales with prescribed melodic variations, and a rhythmic counter which blends with the raga scales. If you experience raga for yourself you can get onto what is going on in this music - it is improvisational, and each performance is a one-off. To notate it is to destroy it. But the drone centre is always there in a symbolic way. Very beautiful stuff.
squonk Hi Squonk and all, I use the musical octave as an analogy for evolution. DQ does not lend itself to a precise formulation! I accept DQ through analogy, metaphor, gesture. I want to talk about the structure of evolution. I have sung some of the Eastern Chants, and I agree with you they rock. My experience with music is that it can put me in a place for communication. The other day I was practicing a song to be sung at Mass for the Response. I let it all hang out, and after I finished someone started clapping. I communicated! Keep the form pure and somehow the emptiness I feel inside which allows me to have visions of rhapsody is communicated to a listening other. DQ! My indefinable awareness has legs and it walks away from me. I am willing to let it go, if another can enjoy it. As a performer I am sure you have had similar experiences. I do not expect the octave to be an absolute, but as an analogy for evolution! Wow! Joe Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
