Klarinet Archive - Posting 000087.txt from 2003/10

From: ormondtoby@-----.net (Ormondtoby Montoya)
Subj: RE: [kl] Lying awake early in the morning (was: Tongue movements)
Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2003 12:12:07 -0400

I wrote:

>=A0And a voice cried out: "No! Pruning and
> cutting are ultimately destructive acts, not
> creative acts!"

Mark wrote:

> And all the Bonsai artists groaned ... in perfect fifths.

I don't want to carry this beyond reason (but who can set a firm limit
as to what is 'reasonable'?), but I have a classical-oriented clarinet
friend who says that he cannot understand jazz, especially Dixieland,
because the music is too confused. "I just don't get it, I really
don't." When I try to talk to him about counterpoint in Bach, etc, he
can't 'hear' how this relates to the "pandemonium" of Dixieland.

So, combined with what I was reading a couple of nights ago (about
shedding finite limits when you rise to meet God, etc), it started me to
think along the lines of:

If one individual can process and coordinate more than (say) two lines
of music simultaneously, and another individual apparently cannot, then
what should we think of an alleged savant who claims to hear dozens of
different melodies in what appears (to the rest of us) to be "noise"?

....as I said in a previous post: "When you're lying awake in the
morning, and you exist not completely in either world alone...."

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