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 Re: The Cocktail Party Theory of Classical Music
Author: Tony Pay ★2017
Date:   2005-07-15 01:02

larryb wrote:

>> Interesting that you never use the word "attack" (I think) - the most commonly used metaphor for the process you're describing. Why?>>

I think the other bits of that metaphor are too damaging. I know that it's a common use of language to divide a musical object into two bits: 'attack' and 'note', or alternatively 'attack' and 'phrase'; but such division is a limitation.

Briefly:

Phrasing most often appears as an implicit, rather than an 'imposed' structure.

The 'attack' metaphor is of someone (the performer) doing something to the beginning of something else (the note); whereas the 'speech' metaphor allows the syllables to flow through the continuous sound of the voice and still be differentiated from each other.

There is no 'attack' to a non-breaking wave (see Phrasing in Contention) in general, even though there may be in particular. So nothing is lost.

Tony
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