Klarinet Archive - Posting 000425.txt from 2004/05

From: ormondtoby@-----.net (Ormondtoby Montoya)
Subj: Re: [kl] Long dead composers and OTHER musical mysteries!; was,
Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 13:13:25 -0400

Patricia=A0Smith wrote:

> I'm very curious as to whether you have any
> characters who have an aspect of their
> personality in which they wish to speculate on
> the Mozart mystery in your book, as has been
> done in this thread and many others here on
> the list, without benefit of "hard" evidence

Probably art derives some of its force because it is *not* completely
analyzable by 'science' or 'hard evidence'. This is the point I was
getting at in relation to "nice dark sound". There must (perhaps may)
be something there, despite a lack of precision, something of sufficient
import that causes some of us to purchase our own tools in order to
experiment with sound qualities that cannot be defined precisely.

As with religion, some will say that this is "sloppy" thinking, others
will say that there are higher truths beyond mere logic, and yet others
will attempt to reconcile the two approaches. But it seems to me that
there is *something* there, even if a precise notation for it doesn't
exist.... yet.

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