When Beethoven was composing, he was producing music the likes of which audience had never heard before. He was "Far out there Man!!!' And I can assure you that a jazz pianist doesn't go to a keyboard and just pound on any notes. There is form and structure under Jazz too.
On Jan 28, 2010, at 1:19 PM, John Carl wrote: > Sure Marsha, even before you posted them in the recent past. > > Quality in it's more static aspect does not obviate Quality in it's more > dynamic. > > Can't put new wine in the old wine skins, > > Later, > > John > > > On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 9:37 AM, MarshaV <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> >> Plu-eeze! >> >> Obviously spoken by someone knowing little of classical music... >> >> Have you ever listened to Bach's Goldberg Variations? >> >> >> >> >> On Jan 28, 2010, at 11:35 AM, John Carl wrote: >> >>> Well said Andre, >>> >>> >>>> Pirsig does not want his metaphysics to be another prison. Hence the >>>> DQ/SQ divisions... and (if you like) the notion of the continuation of >>>> evolutionary progress (which is 'open-ended'). That is: it remains >>>> provisional. >>> >>> >>> >>> Pirsig in ZAMM quotes jazz musicians - jazz, a uniquely new American Art >> - >>> influencing the culture at large, Kerouac adopted Jazz style to >> literature >>> and inspired a new generation of writers to break free from the prison of >>> formal rigidity. >>> >>> Classical symphonys, with every note defined and in its place, have their >>> beauty, Bach in his realm, Kant in his. Breathtaking! but the MoQ is >> more >>> like Jazz, >>> >>> Jazz is not chaotic at its roots. It might seem so to those overly-fond >> of >>> having every note defined, but the musical structure dictates a >> harmonious >>> unity that is not intellectually defined, but sensed, and felt, and >> played >>> with freedom. The MoQ invites harmonious riffs, not apparent to the >>> original composer and discovered in the playing. >>> >>> "Man if you could just drop all them high-falutin' pretensions and DIG >> it" >>> >>> >>> >>> John >> >> >> 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/ >> > 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/ 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/
