, 2003 1:51 AM
Subject: Re: Wolfgang Most Art
This one time, at band camp,
Herb Chong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Your welcome to be first person who has ever composed music wthout
adhering to any rules whatsoever and get anyone to listen to it.
Have you not listened to Kylie Minogue
Mike,
You need to listen to Mozart's music. Nothing is more pure!
Bob
Mozart may be pure, but music is no more pure mathematics than
architecture is pure dancing.*
I don't know all of Mozart and I'm no expert, but I've at least heard most
of the major works. I own the string quartets,
I believe that the full quote is: Writing about music is like dancing about
architecture.
To my recollection, it has been attributed to many, including Elvis Costello,
Laurie Anderson, Zappa, Steve Martin, but the origins are somewhat murky.
Is there a prize for this? (assuming I'm at least
Mike Johnston wrote:
Mike,
You need to listen to Mozart's music. Nothing is more pure!
Bob
Mozart may be pure, but music is no more pure mathematics than
architecture is pure dancing.*
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--Mike
*identify that reference g.
Easy, Mike...
Havelock Ellis
The Dance of
Comments at end...
Keith Whaley wrote:
Mike Johnston wrote:
Mike,
You need to listen to Mozart's music. Nothing is more pure!
Bob
Mozart may be pure, but music is no more pure mathematics than
architecture is pure dancing.*
snipped
--Mike
*identify that
Well, it still aint true. Hardly any artistic expression is more about
matematics than music. Rhytm is pure matematics and composition is all about
rules.
Pål,
Again, we will just have to agree to disagree, my friend, because we are
simply 180 degrees apart on this issue as well. There are
As an amateur musician who has played both, Mozart is high school algebra,
Bach is college calculus. I'd still rather listen to and play Mozart.
You are a man of many talents, Bill.
--Mike
Well, it still aint true. Hardly any artistic expression is more about
matematics than music. Rhytm is pure matematics and composition is all
about
rules.
Pål,
Again, we will just have to agree to disagree, my friend, because we are
simply 180 degrees apart on this issue as well. There
Bill Owens wrote;
Good point Mike! Music played mechanically, without the proper emotion is
just a bunch of notes. How would you explain mathematically the difference
between pianissimo and fortissimo?
We're confusing the composition and the performance. No matter how
artful, the music
Hi,
Tuesday, December 31, 2002, 10:26:27 PM, you wrote:
And that is the problem with African music, the rhythm does not fit into a
familiar mathematical pattern.
African music? Africa's a very big and very varied continent, with a
very long and varied history. The words 'African music' are
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Your welcome to be first person who has ever composed music wthout
adhering to any rules whatsoever and get anyone to listen to it.
second. John Cage.
Herb...
This one time, at band camp,
Herb Chong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Your welcome to be first person who has ever composed music wthout
adhering to any rules whatsoever and get anyone to listen to it.
Have you not listened to Kylie Minogue? ;)
Kevin
--
Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Almost everything that has been written so portentously in this list about
these subjects is utter bullshit. My bullshit has had the virtue of being
obviously bullshit. That can not be said of most of what has been written
in
the past few days.
As I said I
We can check. Did the forest creatures sleep last night?
If you shout in the woods and there's no woman to hear you are you still
wrong?
Regards,
Bob
Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy!
- Benjamin
T Rittenhouse wrote:
Words and numbers can be used to say anything, anything at all. snip
Almost everything that has been written so portentously in this list about
these subjects is utter bullshit. My bullshit has had the virtue of being
obviously bullshit.
Tom,
That's not a virtue. And to
: Wolfgang Most Art
T Rittenhouse wrote:
Words and numbers can be used to say anything, anything at all. snip
Almost everything that has been written so portentously in this list
about
these subjects is utter bullshit. My bullshit has had the virtue of
being
obviously bullshit.
Tom,
That's
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Subject: Re: Wolfgang Most Art
T Rittenhouse wrote:
Words and numbers can be used to say anything, anything at all. snip
Almost everything that has been written so portentously in this list
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