Re: [microsound] state of beauty

[Julian Knowles <julianknowles@xxxxxxx>]

On Thursday, November 25, 2004, at 01:26  PM, michael trommer wrote:

> i don't think so.
>
> the vast majority of all documented music  is based on rhythm and some 
> form
> of harmony

wrong... 'harmony' as we know it was not a concept around at the time 
of the music cited in the earlier post  (1000 years ago). This is not 
academic obfuscation, as you suggest, merely an attempt to be 
accurate...

why  don't we get even more general and say that all music has stayed 
much the same because the vast majority of it uses sound? (though not 
all.... cf Ives).  This argument is a dead end... other than a vehicle 
to express anti academic sentiments and sweeping generalities...


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