At 10:22 AM 10/8/96 -0400, you wrote:
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>>What I explained to you is just a fact of how western music
>>works. It's only subjective if you havent studied Bach, Beethoven,
>>Chopin, Schubert, Mozart, ....Art Tatum, Bill Evans....
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>I guess a lot of us have studied this. There are many ways to hear it.
>There are no real authorities, Reed. In effect, we are all students of
>music. Subjectivity and creativity often go hand in hand. Western music
>has been academicized to such an extreme degree that little breathing space
>has been offered for innovation in the so-called "classical music" sphere.
>Henry Pleasants has something to say about that.
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I don't want to beat a dead horse over this because we are all entitled to
our opinion one but I'm curious about one thing: have you personally
actually gone through a substantial amount of the music I mentioned and
analyzed precisely
what is going on harmonically (and in particular how the bass motion works)
or have you just listened to it ?
>As to the day job, it didn't hurt Charles Ives' music. I recall that
>Rimsky-Korsakov had a gig with the Russian Navy. I think John was just
kidding.
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Well perhaps John was kidding but where I come from that's how tell someone
that
they suck or are an amateur because otherwise they wouldnt need a day job.
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>It seems to me that you have an exceptional talent in music as well. Keep
>up the good work.
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Well I can tell you without hesitation that I had no natural talent at
music whatsoever
but that it's possible to get somewhere if you have perservere. The only
thing I had naturally
was a love of music.
reed
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Reed Kotler
reed@justjazz.com
http://www.justjazz.com