In Reply to: Return of the Dumb posted by Neward T on February 21, 2001 at 11:05:36:
Nice to see you back, Newey. I'm glad the ban wasn't for life. Anyway, this was on the whole an interesting thread, even though your little theory faux-pas must have been a tad embarrassing.I do, on the whole, agree that in order to fully enjoy and understand serious music, some background in harmonic theory can help a great deal. The Coltrane thread served to underline for me that the average listener has little chance of understanding or appreciating his more advanced work and experimentation without a higher than usual grasp of harmony, scales, tonality etc. It sounds elitist (and it is) but a good proportion of 'Tranes oeuver is simply Pearls cast before dumb, uncomprehending, Swine. In the same way that those who have no grasp of a foreign tongue will stare in bewliderment when confronted with a person who may be reciting a great work of literature in that language.
Those who have ears, let them hear.
>Thcore!
My, I had no idea you wrote with a lithp :-).
Joe.
(formerly JoeII-K)
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