Re: that stuff

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From: dante rosati

>Schoenberg opened the door to the overly-abstracted side of
12tet which comes to anti-fruition in Babbit et al.

So you say --- (I don't happen to agree).

>I think that stuff is pretty much played out now and will
in the future be of little interest except to musicologists
looking for obscure and forgotten 20thc. music to write
their dissertations about.

So you say --- (I don't happen to agree).

>Actually I think its the combination of over abstraction of
sound and rhythm at the same time that puts that music
beyond the pale.

So you say --- (I don't happen to agree).

One or the other works better, thats why Schoenberg's serial
tonality set in late romantic rhetoric is more listenable.
Conversely, Thelonius Monk's sometimes far out rhythmic
abstraction is framed by tonal harmony and also works.

So you say --- (I don't happen to agree).

>This "either/or" mentality only results in unnecessary
limitation. There is no right and wrong in music, only music
you like and music you don't care for.

So you said -- And I [more or less] agree.

Dan

>From: "D. Stearns" <stearns@capecod.net>
>So you say --- (I don't happen to agree).
>So you say --- (I don't happen to agree).
>So you say --- (I don't happen to agree).
>So you say --- (I don't happen to agree).
>So you said -- And I [more or less] agree.

Gee Dan,
thems sure some imaginative and constructive discourses!