Klarinet Archive - Posting 000345.txt from 2005/07

From: "Geoff & Sherryl-Lee Secomb" <gsecomb@-----.au>
Subj: Re: [kl] accounting for personal perference
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 18:53:13 -0400

Why analyse, when you could just enjoy the process of discovery?
Geoff.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Vann Joe Turner" <medpen@-----.net>
To: <klarinet@-----.org>
Sent: Friday, July 29, 2005 3:35 AM
Subject: [kl] accounting for personal perference

> Hi List,
>
> I've been puzzling for a couple weeks over what it is in various
> compositions that attracts me strongly to them, and not to others of equal
> quality.
>
> For example, one of my favorite compositions is the Mendelssohn Octet for
> Strings. One of my least favorite is Beethoven Symphony 9. Both are fine
> music, yet one appeals strongly and the other doesn't.
>
> Among Beethoven's symphonies I really like 3 and 7, and I'm trying to
> identify what common traits are shared among the works that strongly
> attract
> me. I'm not having much success in this endeavor--I can't land on any
> common
> factor.
>
> If anyone has any insight or can direct me to a book on music or
> aesthetics
> that addresses such personal attaction, I'd be appreciative.
>
> Best wishes,
> --Vann Joe
>
>
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