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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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In Reply to: Nah. posted by rbolaw on July 6, 2016 at 13:45:32:
. . . at one time, the greatest poets were thought to be: Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, and. . . Ossian! As soon as Ossian was found to be Macpherson - poof! - there went Ossian's place on Olympus! (Thomas Jefferson thought that Ossian was the greatest poet who ever lived!)
To me, that's the proof of the pudding right there. There's no reason to believe that we couldn't have a 21st-century equivalent in music, especially with computer analysis, etc. - LOL!
Many of our tastes in the arts are the results of what role we want to play and how we want to be seen. In addition, the arts are curiously (and often unfortunately) tied to what we today call "identity politics". It's always been interesting to observe how some of the cognoscenti of the time were riveted by the magic of Ossian's words - just as long as he was thought to be a poet from the DISTANT past!
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Follow Ups
- Well, OK - but remember. . . - Chris from Lafayette 15:04:44 07/06/16 (12)
- RE: Well, OK - but remember. . . - rbolaw 17:14:15 07/06/16 (1)
- I knew you were going to bring up Kreisler! ;-) - Chris from Lafayette 17:36:33 07/06/16 (0)
- The computer thing has been done. - D Harvey 15:38:49 07/06/16 (9)
- Yeah - I remember that - Chris from Lafayette 17:22:15 07/06/16 (0)
- Spot on, yet again. - rbolaw 16:49:08 07/06/16 (7)
- "I've never thought of any work of art as unsurpassable perfection" - Chris from Lafayette 17:29:40 07/06/16 (6)
- You mean Beethoven influenced later composers??? ;-) - rbolaw 20:29:53 07/06/16 (5)
- Context, context, context - Chris from Lafayette 23:16:52 07/06/16 (4)
- Rochberg didn't really write in Beethoven's or Mahler's styles - rbolaw 06:37:26 07/07/16 (3)
- So Rochberg's music is "an inevitably imperfect copy" therefore "even more disappointing"? - Chris from Lafayette 08:42:37 07/07/16 (2)
- RE: So Rochberg's music is "an inevitably imperfect copy" therefore "even more disappointing"? - rbolaw 10:06:22 07/07/16 (1)
- The thing that makes Rochberg so controversial. . . - Chris from Lafayette 11:30:48 07/07/16 (0)
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