Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-10 Thread dhbailey
Darcy James Argue wrote: [snip] No, it absolutely does. Let me try one last time: Dog bites man. Man bites dog. What's the difference? Same three words. Different meaning. What accounts for the difference? Grammar. Grammar controls meaning. Actually, meaning controls grammar. We have the

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-10 Thread Richard Yates
You seem to me to be arguing that acoustics are part of the musical content of a work of music, where I'm saying that it is only the mechanism by which the content is conveyed. Can to define this elusive content without reference to physics? ___

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-10 Thread Richard Yates
In all of these words about words, it may be that the hangup is the word 'significant'. Perhaps all he is saying is that grammar is not the meaning and the words themselves are not the meaning. If I am on the right track then he would also say that sound (and hence any aspect of physics) is not

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-10 Thread Andrew Stiller
On Feb 9, 2005, at 2:53 PM, John Howell wrote: Bernouli's law, ...Same law that holds up both fixed-wing and rotary-wing aircraft. Actually, that can't be the case, though everybody thinks it is. If Bernoulli's law were responsible for lift in aircraft, airplanes wouldn't be able to fly

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-10 Thread Andrew Stiller
On Feb 9, 2005, at 4:20 PM, Mark D Lew wrote: I assume that by age of 150 you mean 150 years after birth*. When I wrote the first post I thought I had examples, but now that I do the math, I find the ones I had in mind went out of fashion around age 75-100 and thus don't meet your test. I'...

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-10 Thread Andrew Stiller
Since he dangle his grammatical temporal dongle, I wonder if he'd clarify if he meant the fame from the late 18th century on, or the composer from the late 18th century on. Dennis Fame--or rather, reputation, wh. is what I was really talking about. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press

RE: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-10 Thread Stu McIntire
Regarding physics and music, can I walk out on the ice and suggest that a distinction needs to be made between physics as a discipline of study, on the one hand, and the term being used to refer to the actual forces, etc., that function in the universe? After parsing through these interesting

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-10 Thread John Howell
At 11:06 AM -0500 2/10/05, Andrew Stiller wrote: On Feb 9, 2005, at 2:53 PM, John Howell wrote: Bernouli's law, ...Same law that holds up both fixed-wing and rotary-wing aircraft. Actually, that can't be the case, though everybody thinks it is. If Bernoulli's law were responsible for lift in

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-10 Thread Johannes Gebauer
David W. Fenton wrote: No one is a bigger fan of Mozart than I am. But I have always felt that the Magic Flute is incoherent *as an opera* (or Singspiel, technically speaking, I guess). If it did not have some of the most glorious music ever written, it would be a failure. But so far as I can

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-10 Thread David W. Fenton
On 10 Feb 2005 at 0:36, Darcy James Argue wrote: On 10 Feb 2005, at 12:26 AM, David W. Fenton wrote: On 10 Feb 2005 at 0:09, Darcy James Argue wrote: No, it absolutely does. Let me try one last time: Dog bites man. Man bites dog. What's the difference? Same three words.

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-09 Thread A-NO-NE Music
Darcy James Argue / 05.2.10 / 00:09 AM wrote: No, it absolutely does. Let me try one last time: Dog bites man. Man bites dog. What's the difference? Same three words. Different meaning. What accounts for the difference? Grammar. Grammar controls meaning. Or may be the grammar style is

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-09 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 10 Feb 2005, at 12:26 AM, David W. Fenton wrote: On 10 Feb 2005 at 0:09, Darcy James Argue wrote: No, it absolutely does. Let me try one last time: Dog bites man. Man bites dog. What's the difference? Same three words. Different meaning. What accounts for the difference? The fact that

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-09 Thread Owain Sutton
David W. Fenton wrote: On 9 Feb 2005 at 6:40, dhbailey wrote: A friend of mine who is a professional violinist and violin teacher has explained to me the importance of physical memory for the solo violinist in regard to intonation as opposed to having a good ear. The point is that hitting

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-09 Thread dhbailey
Christopher Smith wrote: On Feb 8, 2005, at 7:52 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: I just pointed out that if the music is incomprehensible without reference to outside information that is not musical in nature, then it's not very good music. Well, I guess we will have to agree to disagree there. I

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-09 Thread dhbailey
Mark D Lew wrote: On Feb 8, 2005, at 4:52 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: . . . Is it important to know that _The Magic Flute_ is full of Masonic symbolism? . . . Perhaps, because otherwise, it's fairly incoherent. I would say that proves that it's not a very good opera. The fact that Flute has

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-09 Thread dhbailey
David W. Fenton wrote: On 8 Feb 2005 at 17:56, Mark D Lew wrote: On Feb 8, 2005, at 4:52 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: . . . Is it important to know that _The Magic Flute_ is full of Masonic symbolism? . . . Perhaps, because otherwise, it's fairly incoherent. I would say that proves that it's not a

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-09 Thread dhbailey
Darcy James Argue wrote: [snip] Both a human and a pool-playing robot (like, say, Deep Green -- http://www.ece.queensu.ca/hpages/faculty/greenspan/) have to solve exactly the same problem, which happens to be a problem of applied physics. So one solves it with neurons and one solves it with

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-09 Thread Richard Yates
Do you consciously think about grammar when you speak? Is grammar significant to communication? - Darcy Can someone communicate effectively without having consciously learned the rules of grammar specifically (as opposed to picking up general concepts of communication)? Certainly, children

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff - Magic Flute

2005-02-09 Thread Raymond Horton
Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: Hey, I'm not ignoring it! I was just trying to resist the urge to make my no-doubt-anticipated musico-politically incorrect two-finger mouth salute over Mozart's incessantly repetitive noodling. I feel for you, too, Dennis.

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-09 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 09 Feb 2005, at 7:07 AM, dhbailey wrote: Richard Yates wrote: Do you consciously think about grammar when you speak? Is grammar significant to communication? - Darcy Oooh, good one! Can someone communicate effectively without having consciously learned the rules of grammar specifically (as

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-09 Thread John Howell
At 10:33 AM -0500 2/9/05, dhbailey wrote: Could you please explain what aspects of physics are in my conscious thought while I'm playing the trumpet? Physics is the science which defines and describes in precise detail the actions and interactions. I don't concede that we're discussing

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-09 Thread Andrew Stiller
Andrew suggested that history's verdict on Janacek is long since in. I think it's way too soon to say that. I can think of a dozen opera composers who were considered great 75 years after their death but were discarded by history 50 years later. (Plus a few more who were great for a

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-09 Thread Christopher Smith
On Wednesday, February 9, 2005, at 03:02 PM, Andrew Stiller wrote: I cannot think of a single composer, in any genre, who having been considered great at the age of 150, came to be considered insignificant, or even minor, at any later time. Composers, living or dead, do tend to go out of

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-09 Thread Mark D Lew
On Feb 9, 2005, at 12:02 PM, Andrew Stiller wrote: First of all, Janacek is not an opera composer--he wrote important music in a wide variety of genres, and even were all his operas to be forgotten the remaining body of work would be more than sufficient to maintain his standing as a major

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-09 Thread Mark D Lew
On Feb 9, 2005, at 1:01 PM, Owain Sutton wrote: For composers of age of 150, the limiting date is 1855. So your description actually focuses on a few decades of composition, and on those composers' current reputation. It neither proves nor demonstrates anything. How do you figure only a few

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-09 Thread Mark D Lew
On Feb 9, 2005, at 3:16 PM, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: Since he dangle his grammatical temporal dongle, I wonder if he'd clarify if he meant the fame from the late 18th century on, or the composer from the late 18th century on. Ah, now I see the confusion. I assumed he meant fame from the late

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-09 Thread Richard Yates
Could you please explain what aspects of physics are in my conscious thought while I'm playing the trumpet? You are calculating the air pressures necessary using Bernoulli's Principle and the modulus of elasticity of skin as it relates to the natural vibrational frequency of the air column from

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-09 Thread Richard Yates
Bernouli's law, actually, making the lips buzz like any other double (or single) reeds. Same law that holds up both fixed-wing and rotary-wing aircraft. John I cannot believe that someone else also mentioned Bernoulli! By the way, I heard somewhere recently that the relative force of

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-09 Thread David W. Fenton
On 9 Feb 2005 at 0:27, Darcy James Argue wrote: On 08 Feb 2005, at 7:30 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: On 8 Feb 2005 at 1:31, Darcy James Argue wrote: Please explain how you would build a pool-playing robot without including some sort of physics module in the AI. A human pool player

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-09 Thread David W. Fenton
On 8 Feb 2005 at 22:07, Richard Yates wrote: Do you consciously think about grammar when you speak? Is grammar significant to communication? - Darcy Oooh, good one! No, it's the same question as before, and the answer is that it is significant to *enabling* it, but does not necessarily

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-09 Thread Richard Yates
That doesn't mean grammar has any significance to the meaning of any particular utterance (though it certainly *could*). If you really believe this then I can only assume that you have a rather nonstandard definition of 'grammar' in mind. Can you write some examples of utterances in which you

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-09 Thread David W. Fenton
On 9 Feb 2005 at 6:33, dhbailey wrote: Christopher Smith wrote: On Feb 8, 2005, at 7:52 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: I just pointed out that if the music is incomprehensible without reference to outside information that is not musical in nature, then it's not very good music.

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-09 Thread David W. Fenton
On 9 Feb 2005 at 6:40, dhbailey wrote: Darcy James Argue wrote: [snip] Both a human and a pool-playing robot (like, say, Deep Green -- http://www.ece.queensu.ca/hpages/faculty/greenspan/) have to solve exactly the same problem, which happens to be a problem of applied physics.

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-09 Thread David W. Fenton
On 9 Feb 2005 at 5:19, Richard Yates wrote: Do you consciously think about grammar when you speak? Is grammar significant to communication? - Darcy Can someone communicate effectively without having consciously learned the rules of grammar specifically (as opposed to picking up

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-09 Thread David W. Fenton
On 9 Feb 2005 at 6:48, Richard Yates wrote: I don't think anybody has said physics has no significance, just that it is not part of people's conscious thought processes while making music or playing pool. My part of this thread has been to respond to the post that said: Physics is

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-09 Thread David W. Fenton
On 9 Feb 2005 at 19:28, Richard Yates wrote: That doesn't mean grammar has any significance to the meaning of any particular utterance (though it certainly *could*). If you really believe this then I can only assume that you have a rather nonstandard definition of 'grammar' in mind. Can

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-09 Thread David W. Fenton
On 9 Feb 2005 at 19:37, Richard Yates wrote: It seems to me that you are willfully re-reading everything I've written -- I'm talking about *musical* significance, and always have been, and quite clearly. There are those asterisks again! . . . Asterisks are not equal to quotation marks.

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-09 Thread Richard Yates
That doesn't mean grammar has any significance to the meaning of any particular utterance (though it certainly *could*). If you really believe this then I can only assume that you have a rather nonstandard definition of 'grammar' in mind. Can you write some examples of utterances in

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-09 Thread David W. Fenton
On 10 Feb 2005 at 0:09, Darcy James Argue wrote: On 10 Feb 2005, at 12:04 AM, David W. Fenton wrote: On 9 Feb 2005 at 23:58, Darcy James Argue wrote: On 09 Feb 2005, at 10:36 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: Physics has no necessary *musical* significance, just has grammar has no

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-09 Thread David W. Fenton
On 9 Feb 2005 at 21:11, Richard Yates wrote: That doesn't mean grammar has any significance to the meaning of any particular utterance (though it certainly *could*). If you really believe this then I can only assume that you have a rather nonstandard definition of 'grammar' in

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-08 Thread John Howell
At 2:31 PM -0500 2/7/05, Christopher Smith wrote: On Monday, February 7, 2005, at 12:34 PM, Phil Daley wrote: The first question: Was this (Cage's) music as successful (moving, exciting, attractive) as other musics? I don't see how anyone can argue a yes answer to this question. The

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-08 Thread Andrew Stiller
And to get the point of the music, do you need to know this about the origins of the idea? If not, then it's not very important musically, in my opinion. If so, then it's probably not very good music to begin with. -- David W. Fenton Depends what you consider important to know about different

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-08 Thread John Howell
At 4:22 PM -0500 2/7/05, David W. Fenton wrote: The carpenter's tools are not the point of his work. Unless, of course, you play that famous pre-Theramin instrument, the saw. John -- John Susie Howell Virginia Tech Department of Music Blacksburg, Virginia, U.S.A 24061-0240 Vox (540) 231-8411 Fax

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-08 Thread Christopher Smith
On Tuesday, February 8, 2005, at 01:06 PM, Andrew Stiller wrote: And BTW, it's not up to you to decide whether J's music is very good or not. On that point, the verdict of history is in, long since. Umm, what IS history's verdict on Janacek's music? I really like it, but I'm not sure that

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-08 Thread Christopher Smith
On Tuesday, February 8, 2005, at 02:24 PM, Stu McIntire wrote: What modern composer IS known outside of academic circles? Steve Reich, John Adams, and, in particular, Phillip Glass. Thank you, at least two of those will do nicely for illustrative purposes. Reich and Glass (and perhaps Adams,

RE: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-08 Thread Lee Actor
[answering Andrew Stiller] And BTW, it's not up to you to decide whether J's music is very good or not. On that point, the verdict of history is in, long since. Umm, what IS history's verdict on Janacek's music? I really like it, but I'm not sure that counts for much. 8-) I'm not

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-08 Thread David W. Fenton
On 8 Feb 2005 at 1:31, Darcy James Argue wrote: On 07 Feb 2005, at 8:40 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: You don't think basketball commentators (and coaches, and players) talk about angle, rebounds, arcs, etc? That's not physics, except using a rather debased definition of it that

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-08 Thread Mark D Lew
On Feb 8, 2005, at 4:52 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: . . . Is it important to know that _The Magic Flute_ is full of Masonic symbolism? . . . Perhaps, because otherwise, it's fairly incoherent. I would say that proves that it's not a very good opera. The fact that Flute has remained popular for

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-08 Thread Richard Yates
As a trained (but not completed) musicologist, I would suggest two names that will be of great interest to scholars in 200 years because their music has touched so many people: Paul McCartney (along with whatsizname), whose throwaway songs still won't go away 40 years later, and John

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-08 Thread David W. Fenton
On 8 Feb 2005 at 17:56, Mark D Lew wrote: On Feb 8, 2005, at 4:52 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: . . . Is it important to know that _The Magic Flute_ is full of Masonic symbolism? . . . Perhaps, because otherwise, it's fairly incoherent. I would say that proves that it's not a very good

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-08 Thread Mark D Lew
On Feb 8, 2005, at 3:52 PM, dhbailey wrote: I don't think it has anything to do with faith -- history will be the final arbiter, regardless of how great we currently may think any composer (currently living or long dead) might be. Sorry, I wasn't clear. When I said the permanence of history's

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-08 Thread John Howell
At 9:05 PM -0500 2/8/05, David W. Fenton wrote: No one is a bigger fan of Mozart than I am. But I have always felt that the Magic Flute is incoherent *as an opera* (or Singspiel, technically speaking, I guess). If it did not have some of the most glorious music ever written, it would be a failure.

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-08 Thread Richard Yates
Human beings do not think of equations and physics when they move -- they just move. Physics is involved, but not at any conscious level, and not at any significant level. On the contrary, the preparation for the precise movements in performing music involves detailed conscious thought about

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-08 Thread David W. Fenton
On 8 Feb 2005 at 21:31, John Howell wrote: At 9:05 PM -0500 2/8/05, David W. Fenton wrote: No one is a bigger fan of Mozart than I am. But I have always felt that the Magic Flute is incoherent *as an opera* (or Singspiel, technically speaking, I guess). If it did not have some of the most

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-08 Thread David W. Fenton
On 8 Feb 2005 at 18:18, Richard Yates wrote: Human beings do not think of equations and physics when they move -- they just move. Physics is involved, but not at any conscious level, and not at any significant level. On the contrary, the preparation for the precise movements in

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-08 Thread Richard Yates
Human beings do not think of equations and physics when they move -- they just move. Physics is involved, but not at any conscious level, and not at any significant level. On the contrary, the preparation for the precise movements in performing music involves detailed conscious

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-08 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 08 Feb 2005, at 7:30 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: On 8 Feb 2005 at 1:31, Darcy James Argue wrote: Please explain how you would build a pool-playing robot without including some sort of physics module in the AI. A human pool player is not a pool-playing robot. And that's the whole point. Both a

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-08 Thread Richard Yates
Do you consciously think about grammar when you speak? Is grammar significant to communication? - Darcy Oooh, good one! Richard ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-07 Thread Gerald Berg
But of course this very thing produced Cage himself. Cage didn't posit an alternate but an inverse. His way was never free but rather, full enslavement. Without the legacy of culture we would be as every other living thing -- in perpetual present. His early stuff was great! Less

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-07 Thread Andrew Stiller
ere is nothing important in music that comes from science. -- David W. Fenton You've really got to stop blurting out things like that w.o thinking. Valved brasses? Boehm-system woodwinds? Electric and electronic instruments? MIDI? Nylon strings? Computer composition? Computer sound synthesis?

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-07 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 12:34 PM 2/7/05 -0500, Phil Daley wrote: The first question: Was this (Cage's) music as successful (moving, exciting, attractive) as other musics? I don't see how anyone can argue a yes answer to this question. The scientific proof would be that pretty much no one has ever heard of him

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-07 Thread Phil Daley
At 2/7/2005 01:31 PM, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: I'll argue yes, and easily. I'm not an academic, and never have been. But I If by 'other musics' you mean the bulk of music people listen to and buy, then Mozart can't hold a candle in this argument either. But there are many measures of success

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-07 Thread A-NO-NE Music
Phil Daley / 05.2.7 / 00:34 PM wrote: The first question: Was this (Cage's) music as successful (moving, exciting, attractive) as other musics? Woa. Never expected this to come. I was very, very lucky to play his music under his direction one year before he past away. His percussion pieces

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-07 Thread Christopher Smith
On Monday, February 7, 2005, at 12:34 PM, Phil Daley wrote: The first question: Was this (Cage's) music as successful (moving, exciting, attractive) as other musics? I don't see how anyone can argue a yes answer to this question. The scientific proof would be that pretty much no one has

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-07 Thread David W. Fenton
On 7 Feb 2005 at 11:32, Andrew Stiller wrote: ere is nothing important in music that comes from science. -- David W. Fenton You've really got to stop blurting out things like that w.o thinking. Valved brasses? Boehm-system woodwinds? Electric and electronic instruments? MIDI? Nylon

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-07 Thread David W. Fenton
On 7 Feb 2005 at 11:34, Andrew Stiller wrote: You prove *your* assertion that, in effect, consonance can exist in music in which dissonance is never resolved. Dumbarton Oaks Concerto. Last chord. QED A schoolmarmish definition of unresolved you have here, as lots of dissonances *before*

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-07 Thread David W. Fenton
On 7 Feb 2005 at 12:06, Andrew Stiller wrote: whether other critters can be said to make music depends a lot on how music is defined. Ah, finally a statement that shows that you *do* actually understand the topic of discussion. Speech uses sound to convey meaning (the prose of sound).

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-07 Thread Andrew Stiller
Phil Daley: I don't see how anyone can argue a yes answer to this question. The scientific proof would be that pretty much no one has ever heard of [Cage] (outside of academic music people). Now, *that's* not true. There's a major Hollywood actor who's taken Cage's name as his own, and I

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-07 Thread Allen Fisher
David-- You went to Oberlin? I went to school right down the road in Ashland. When were you there? On 2/7/05 3:31 PM, David W. Fenton [EMAIL PROTECTED] saith: When he visited Oberlin while I was a student, his visit was actually sponsored by the dance department.

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-07 Thread Andrew Stiller
Beyond that, there is the less measurable by very important influence of acoustic and music-psychological theories upon compositional styles, going back at least to Berlioz. I would be interested to see specific examples in pieces of music where these things produced events in the musical

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-07 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 07 Feb 2005, at 4:17 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: On 6 Feb 2005 at 23:39, Darcy James Argue wrote: That's like saying There is nothing important in basketball that comes from physics. On the one hand, Lebron Lames doesn't actually need to know the first thing about Isaac Newton or his theories in

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-07 Thread Allen Fisher
Sorry All-- Didn't mean for this to go to the list... On 2/7/05 3:56 PM, Allen Fisher [EMAIL PROTECTED] saith: David-- You went to Oberlin? I went to school right down the road in Ashland. When were you there? On 2/7/05 3:31 PM, David W. Fenton [EMAIL PROTECTED] saith: When he

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-07 Thread David W. Fenton
On 7 Feb 2005 at 17:08, Andrew Stiller wrote: Beyond that, there is the less measurable by very important influence of acoustic and music-psychological theories upon compositional styles, going back at least to Berlioz. I would be interested to see specific examples in pieces of

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-07 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 07 Feb 2005, at 8:40 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: You don't think basketball commentators (and coaches, and players) talk about angle, rebounds, arcs, etc? That's not physics, except using a rather debased definition of it that includes just about anything involving motion. David, that's just

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-06 Thread Christopher Smith
On Feb 5, 2005, at 8:34 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote: Hi Chuck, Well, clearly, we cannot perceive frequencies beyond those that our hardware is capable of conveying to our brains. Other animals with different hardware perceive a different range of frequencies. Some animals (e.g., bats) even

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-06 Thread Andrew Stiller
And when you eliminate the concept of dissonance in the musical text (i.e., the dissonances are never resolved), -- David W. Fenton I'm sorry, but this literally makes no sense as formulated, and there have clearly been several logical steps omitted. Let's do it this way: I deny what you say.

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-06 Thread Andrew Stiller
Jerry: Birds don't make music -- they use sound for function. Music has no function? Bird song is not produced for joy but for vigilance. You are making the common error of confusing the function of a behavior with the subjective experience of the one behaving. If you accept that birdsong is a

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-06 Thread Andrew Stiller
Maybe an interesting hypothetical question: does our hardware (inner ear bones etc.) react to outside stimuli that bear some relationship to the physical laws that govern the resonant behavior of the bones themselves? Just an idle thought. I'm in no position to explore this. Chuck The

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-06 Thread Andrew Stiller
Why was musical education considered (apparently) so important for the girls and young women who studied with Vivaldi at the Ospedali? One presumes that since orphans don't have dowries, they were being prepared for employment. Was music a positive factor in that? Never have seen anything

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-06 Thread Chuck Israels
Of course, Andrew. I do know that. I must not have couched my hypothetical question in the best way. What I meant to consider may be better expressed this way: since the human hardware is subject to the same principles of physics that govern the resonant behavior of those materials that produce

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-06 Thread David W. Fenton
On 6 Feb 2005 at 13:17, Don B. Robertson wrote: Owain Sutton wrote: This is a good explanation of the situation - unfortunately it's beyond the distance that even musicians are prepared to go to question whether their understanding of music is inate or acquired. I do find is scary, that

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-06 Thread David W. Fenton
On 6 Feb 2005 at 15:26, Andrew Stiller wrote: And when you eliminate the concept of dissonance in the musical text (i.e., the dissonances are never resolved), -- David W. Fenton I'm sorry, but this literally makes no sense as formulated, and there have clearly been several logical steps

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-06 Thread Owain Sutton
David W. Fenton wrote: To those who assert that music is a purely cultural phenomenon, I would point out that this idea has been put to the test, quite rigorously, by John Cage, who insisted that any sounds or combination of sounds could be construed as music if one merely had the will to do so,

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-05 Thread dhbailey
Owain Sutton wrote: There have been some pretty intense commentaries about this tension-release technique being sexually analogous and gender-specific, and that in recent years, women composers have emancipated their writing from the build-to-climax model implicit in harmonic and architectural

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-05 Thread David W. Fenton
On 5 Feb 2005 at 9:56, Christopher Smith wrote: On Feb 4, 2005, at 7:06 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: On 4 Feb 2005 at 8:23, Christopher Smith wrote: Right. No dissonance, no consonance. It's not about that any more. You have correctly understood, grasshopper! Well, then, you

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-05 Thread David W. Fenton
On 5 Feb 2005 at 10:33, John Howell wrote: Since male musicians were trained in the church's choir schools--no girls need apply--the girls who did get a musical education usually got it in the home, from parents who were musicians. Females were also trained in music in convents, but were

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-05 Thread Owain Sutton
David W. Fenton wrote: And when you eliminate the concept of dissonance in the musical text (i.e., the dissonances are never resolved), then you no longer have a distinction between the two types of intervals beyond the culturally defined meanings the listeners bring to the table. This is a

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-05 Thread Christopher Smith
On Feb 5, 2005, at 7:02 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: On 5 Feb 2005 at 9:56, Christopher Smith wrote: On Feb 4, 2005, at 7:06 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: On 4 Feb 2005 at 8:23, Christopher Smith wrote: Right. No dissonance, no consonance. It's not about that any more. You have correctly understood,

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-05 Thread John Howell
At 7:13 PM -0500 2/5/05, David W. Fenton wrote: On 5 Feb 2005 at 10:33, John Howell wrote: Since male musicians were trained in the church's choir schools--no girls need apply--the girls who did get a musical education usually got it in the home, from parents who were musicians. Females were

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-05 Thread David W. Fenton
On 5 Feb 2005 at 19:48, John Howell wrote: At 7:13 PM -0500 2/5/05, David W. Fenton wrote: On 5 Feb 2005 at 10:33, John Howell wrote: Since male musicians were trained in the church's choir schools--no girls need apply--the girls who did get a musical education usually got it in the

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-05 Thread Christopher Smith
On Feb 5, 2005, at 7:20 PM, Owain Sutton wrote: David W. Fenton wrote: And when you eliminate the concept of dissonance in the musical text (i.e., the dissonances are never resolved), then you no longer have a distinction between the two types of intervals beyond the culturally defined

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-05 Thread Darcy James Argue
That's a straw man, Owain. Of course English isn't natural (read: innate), but the common fundamental grammar (Chomsky's universal grammar) that makes human language possible in the first place is clearly innate, and, like the man says, universal. No one is arguing that the Western system of

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-05 Thread David W. Fenton
On 5 Feb 2005 at 19:54, Darcy James Argue wrote: No one is arguing that the Western system of functional harmony is natural or innate. . . . Perhaps no one in this particular discussion has explicitly argued that, but there are lots of people who *do* believe exactly that, and that body of

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-04 Thread Christopher Smith
On Feb 3, 2005, at 9:57 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: On 3 Feb 2005 at 21:51, Christopher Smith wrote: On Feb 3, 2005, at 8:10 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: On 3 Feb 2005 at 12:07, Andrew Stiller wrote: In any event, emancipation of the dissonance certainly does not imply elimination of the consonant. I

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-04 Thread dhbailey
Christopher Smith wrote: On Feb 3, 2005, at 9:57 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: On 3 Feb 2005 at 21:51, Christopher Smith wrote: On Feb 3, 2005, at 8:10 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: On 3 Feb 2005 at 12:07, Andrew Stiller wrote: In any event, emancipation of the dissonance certainly does not imply

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-04 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 08:41 AM 2/4/05 -0500, dhbailey wrote: they look for that good old mix of dissonance and consonance where the composer builds the tension masterfully and controls the release, so that the audience feels good at the end. Let's mix it up some more! :) There have been some pretty intense

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-04 Thread Christopher Smith
On Feb 4, 2005, at 8:41 AM, dhbailey wrote: Christopher Smith wrote: On Feb 3, 2005, at 9:57 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: On 3 Feb 2005 at 21:51, Christopher Smith wrote: On Feb 3, 2005, at 8:10 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: On 3 Feb 2005 at 12:07, Andrew Stiller wrote: In any event, emancipation of

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-04 Thread dhbailey
Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: At 08:41 AM 2/4/05 -0500, dhbailey wrote: they look for that good old mix of dissonance and consonance where the composer builds the tension masterfully and controls the release, so that the audience feels good at the end. Let's mix it up some more! :) There have

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-04 Thread dhbailey
Christopher Smith wrote: On Feb 4, 2005, at 8:41 AM, dhbailey wrote: Christopher Smith wrote: On Feb 3, 2005, at 9:57 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: On 3 Feb 2005 at 21:51, Christopher Smith wrote: On Feb 3, 2005, at 8:10 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: On 3 Feb 2005 at 12:07, Andrew Stiller wrote: In any

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-04 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 09:23 AM 2/4/05 -0500, dhbailey wrote: You mean to tell me that men are the only participants in a sexual encounter who enjoy it? Come on, now, Dennis. That's not been my experience! Why does the sexual analogy of the tension-release have to be from a male point of view? I know of

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