Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote: [ on 06:35 AM 5/17/2007 ]
> Otherwise, at the end of the day, a musical composition is just a lot
> of notes and my dear Dylan Thomas is just a series of words stringed
> together.
Isn't that exactly what they are?
You may have missed the "just" in the sentence above.
Bach's violin sonatas and Dylan Thomas's poetry derive their aesthetic
and artistic value from their content, not from a "Teach yourself art
appreciation in 21 days" manual.
False dichotomy. A sonata may derive its artistic value from its
content, but only if the listener has a context to appreciate it.
Somebody who gre up listening only to Gangubai Hangal (or John Cage)
might well find it tedious.
The point is that phrases like "artistic value" are extremely contextual.
Udhay
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