At 11:21 AM -0800 10/29/01, logrey beam wrote:
quoted 3 lines ALL music is emotionless!!
>ALL music is emotionless!!
>to say one can percieve the exact emotional intent an
>artist implanted into a work is complete hogwash!!!
I'm not sure why you're directing this at me, but that's okay..
yeah, that was Stravinsky's big line about music, too. I think that
view makes a good point, that emotional connotations to music are
usually the projections of the audience, whose response can only be
controlled imperfectly by the composer.
But it's a reactionary view that tries to correct a popular, perhaps
sappy, notion that music is intrinsically emotional.
No, music usually can't describe an exact emotion the way, say,
literature can. Yeah, people (especially in the IDM list) are
inclined to project oddly irrelevent emotions onto music that seems
formally conceived ("That new Surgeon CD is heartbreakingly sad.")
But clearly music can be used to suggest emotions to the listener.
All sorts of conventions have arisen to evoke various feelings.
Sometimes they are used in an open-ended sort of way that leaves lots
of room for interpretation on the part of the listener. Elsewhere (I
think of a programmatic, romantic work like "Verklaerte Nacht") it is
quite clear what emotions the composer is attempting to describe with
the music. The use of music in opera and film provides more examples
of how, in the right context, music can be used to describe emotions
in a fairly precise way.
Were music always "emotionless!", we'd probably hear more dirges at
circuses and more cartoon music at funerals.
k
quoted 20 lines --- Kurt Hoffman <supine@bway.net> wrote:
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>--- Kurt Hoffman <supine@bway.net> wrote:
>> >music should be an
>> >emotional canvass, and computers dont have these.
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>> computers, however lifeless, are tools, just as much
>> as drumsticks
>> and K-Y jelly. emotions are fueled by minds, which
>> can be profoundly
>> moved by stimuli as chilly and abstract as printed
>> text.
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