Klarinet Archive - Posting 000292.txt from 2003/06

From: "Bill Semple" <wsemple@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Keys and their character-AAAAAHHHHHHH!
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 14:03:32 -0400

Why is it that you are in such a minority on issues such as this? You remind
me of that New Yorker ad where everyone is buried inb the Philadelphia
Inquirer while the lone observer frantically points to the sky, which is
beginning to fall.

What is your basis regarding music? That it is a purely scientific,
mathematical exercise, requiring scientific proof to accept certain notions
or descriptions about sound? You ask for facts. What kind of facts? Much of
our world is developed on concensus and convention, including many of our
laws, that do not spring apriori from someone's awareness of metaphysics,
but from experiment and experience. By dispensing with some of the
conclusions reached here as pure balderdash, you dispense with the basic
process by which we think, and I suggest, we came up with music in the first
place.

William T. Semple
Office: 202-364-2466
Home: 540-364-4823
Cell: 540-903-6645
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Leeson" <leeson0@-----.net>
Subject: Re: [kl] Keys and their character-AAAAAHHHHHHH!

> Of course we will talk about it again, ... and again and again until it
> is dead. Bad ideas take a lot of killing and this one is particularly
bad.
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> Next comes "dark sound." Feel free to gnash your teeth.
>
> Dan
>
> Gil Guerrero wrote:
> > AAAAAHHHHHHH!!!! (with appropriate sound of rending of shirt and
> > gnashing teeth.)
> >
> > Not the Key personality argument AAGGGAAAAAIIIIINNNNN!!
> >
> > "Step into my parlor," said the Spider to the Fly...
> >
> > Can't we just talk about how many angels can fit on the head of a pin?
> > The answer being, of course, three.
> >
> >
> >> The idea that each key had its own personality (with A and E being
> >> bright) and D-flat, G-flat being serious (or whatever), is another
> >> romantic assertion that doesn't have a leg to stand on.
> >
> >
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