Klarinet Archive - Posting 000418.txt from 2004/05

From: ormondtoby@-----.net (Ormondtoby Montoya)
Subj: Re: [kl] Hesitating to draw a musical parallel
Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 11:43:39 -0400

Tony Pay wrote:

> That *you* happen to 'like' something in
> isolation does no work at all. [snip from
> multiple posts] Now, having argued against
> individual likes and dislikes as determinants
> of musical value, I want to say that there
> there are aesthetic preferences which the
> majority of human beings pretty much all
> share.

It interests me that --- Without (!) intending to discuss the usefulness
of the word "dark" --- that the phrase "nice dark sound" is, I think,
heard more commonly in casual 'I-know-it-when-I-hear-it' speech as
praise than is the phrase "nice bright sound".

Perhaps the inclusion of "nice" is significant because it conveys an
element of relaxed and less strident behavior. That is, "bright" and
"dark" are each used commonly by themselves, but you don't hear "nice
bright" as often as you hear "nice dark". This may go hand-in-hand
with the concept that biting the reed (which generally raises the pitch)
is also a 'bad' thing.

Just a thought.

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