Klarinet Archive - Posting 000395.txt from 2004/05

From: ormondtoby@-----.net (Ormondtoby Montoya)
Subj: Re: [kl] Hesitating to draw a musical parallel
Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 09:56:42 -0400

Tony Pay wrote:

> the argument referred beyond the merits or
> otherwise of Cracker Jack in and of itself, and
> spoke rather of how Cracker Jack was part of
> the structure of baseball attendance, as
> evidenced by its mention in one of the songs
> associated with baseball. [snip]

> A far more productive thing to do is to ask
> yourself how someone's playing fits into the
> context it's designed for. How does it
> contribute to the piece? Does it perhaps even
> cast any new light on what you think the piece
> *is*? [snip]

> Music is relational. And the great
> relationships of which it speaks aren't
> relationships beween *damned opinions*.
> That *you* happen to 'like' something in
> isolation does no work at all.

Point taken, Tony. Thank you.

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