Klarinet Archive - Posting 000295.txt from 2000/05

From: charette@-----.org
Subj: Re: [kl] Tone descriptions
Date: Fri, 5 May 2000 10:28:01 -0400

Audrey wrote:
+Must we
be scientifically able to prove that we all hear or feel the same thing for us
or our music to be valid? Perhaps we've forgotten why we make, listen to, and
love music.

Of course not. But - if we're to communicate ideas, we all need the same references. There were a series of paintings of a room (Van Gogh? I'm not in a place right now where I can reference them) where the arist paints a room where "he could go insane". The one where he feels he was insane was the one I'd be least likely to pick out from the series.

A poet or author uses a language they are comfortable with - but do things get lost in the translation to another language? Are the nuances lost? Languages have common forms of reference built into themselves, so translation is problematical at best when it comes to other than concrete ("this is a rock") forms.

Music can be enjoyed without references, but I've found in the last few years that the more I understand the music, the more I can find common references, the more I enjoy it at other than superficial levels. Of course, sometimes I try and "turn off" the understanding so I can hear an orchestra again, not the individual instruments, or turn off "that's theme one, that's variation three" so I can hear the music again.

Mark C.

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