Klarinet Archive - Posting 000168.txt from 2008/12

From: "Keith" <bowenk@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Beethoven Nine and Meaning
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 05:30:02 -0500

Yeah, I did read most of those and you can tell this was not my favourite
topic in the musicology MA course that I'm doing! My thought was that it had
as much relevance to a practicing musician as philosophy of science had to
my career as a scientist. Not quite zero, but barely on the radar.

I think the biggest surprise was to find out what a flimsy thing the
humanities' scholars mean by the word 'theory'. There seems to be no
conception of the scientific idea of a theory being a construct that
summarises available knowledge, is empirically testable and is discarded
when inadequate. A humanities theory appears to be just someone's pet idea
and a vehicle for rabid opinionated argument! <stir>.

Writings on the issues surrounding 'historically informed performance', on
the other hand, hold immense interest.

All is well thanks, hope it is so with you. Happy New Year!

Keith

-----Original Message-----
From: klarinet-return-94860-bowenk=compuserve.com@-----.org
[mailto:klarinet-return-94860-bowenk=compuserve.com@-----.org] On Behalf
Of Forest Aten
Sent: 29 December 2008 19:54
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: RE: [kl] Beethoven Nine and Meaning

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Keith [mailto:bowenk@-----.com]
> Sent: Monday, December 29, 2008 1:28 PM
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: RE: [kl] Beethoven Nine and Meaning
>
> You won't thank me if you read them all!
>
> Keith :-)
>
>

LOL....Yep...that's a lot of reading.

The next topic...."if a tree falls in the woods......"

Hope all is well Keith.

Forest

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