Klarinet Archive - Posting 000750.txt from 1996/02

From: Michael D Moors - Alpena <mdmoors@-----.US>
Subj: Re: Real music? Anti music
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 1996 11:14:57 -0500

If you notice how I signed my posting you will realize that I mean't my
positivng to be "tongue and cheek". To compare rap to Copland? I guess
they call this PROGRESS!

Mike Moors

On Sat, 24 Feb 1996 niethamer@-----.BITNET wrote:

> The following appeared in my mailbox:
>
> > The listserve is to discuss clarinet related items.
>
> Well, yes, and presumably the listserv of 70 years ago would have decried
> the discussion of jazz, as it didn't relate to the clarinet and real
> music. Today we need to have that discussion to understand the influences
> on Copland in his Clarinet Concerto (to use just one KLARINET related
> example).
>
> My point is, whether we like it or not, popular culture influences the
> music of the future, and we remain ignorant of it at our own peril.
>
> > Take your favorite rap tune, eliminate the words and try humming the
> > melody.
>
> Take the "Rite of Spring" and try to sing me the melody?!? Take any one
> aspect of this work and try to justify its 40 minute length?!?? I think
> one of the successes of this work is that the whole is greater than the
> sum of the parts.
>
> I believe John Roman needed melody, harmony, rhythm, and form to have
> "music". But last I checked, no one in authority was measuring for equal
> 25% presence of the components in order to declare it music. It's not
> quite as rigorously scientific as labeling food "low fat"!
>
> > Closed minded,
> >
> > Mike Moors
>
> Ready to learn about anything related to music (however tangential),
>
> David Niethamer
>
> p.s. now Minimalism - there's "anti-music" - let's not discuss it!!
>

   
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