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RE: "musicality"

Author: Mark Charette
Date: 1999-05-20 20:05

stuart wrote:
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What does it mean to be "musical"? This term surrounded me in school and I hated it. Up to now, I had forgotten about it.
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Wow, Stuart - you must have had a heck of a time in school when it came to music - you've hated eveything so far.
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"He plays clarinet, but he's not very musical." Doesn't it seem like a vague and redundent adjetive?
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Not to me.
e.g.;
"He can drive a car, but he can't race worth a darn."
"I can operate a sewing machine, but don't let me sew your clothes."
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Everything pertaining to music is MUSICAL. This whole technical/emotional division really screwed things up for me.
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I think most of us don't have any real problem with the difference. There has to be some level of technical competence to play music, and to be "musical", but not all of us are up to playing the Corigliani concerto.
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Everyday I realize more and more that it's all united as one entity: me.
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Another reason the term bothers me is it somehow judges what is and isn't music which is not the job of any of us.
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No - it's the job of _all_ of us. We have different interpretations of what's music - but there's no "absolute" and I don't think anyone I know pretends there is.
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What is musical and why is the term used only in these school/"classical" settings?
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It isn't. Where did you get that idea? I made a partial living playing jazz and CW along with pop music, and while the term "musical" may not have been used verbatim, the meaning was used. "You're really with it tonight" was a bit more common, but it meant exactly the same thing. Is it describable? I'm not sure, unless it is in terms of something that the listener can realte to.

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stuart

1999-05-20 19:17

RE: "musicality"

Mark Charette

1999-05-20 20:05