From: Kevin Austin (kevin.austin@videotron.ca)
Date: Sat Dec 15 2007 - 00:07:22 EST
My point too. Thank you.
Everything is in the brain of the listener. There is no external reality.
Sometimes the interpretations of "thingies" are similar between
people and we may feel we understand or empathize, and sometimes it
is as if we live in different dimensions. I'm positive George Bush,
Conrad Black, and Brian Mulroney believe what they perceive as truth,
but I don't get it.
Best
Kevin
At 12:00 AM -0500 12/15/07, Eliot Handelman wrote:
>Kevin Austin wrote:
>>
>>Narrative was only one basis of the evolution of western music,
>>another being the dance. These two had merged significantly by the
>>time that Bach was writing the solo violin sonatas, but to take the
>>dance movements of these pieces as being 'narrative' I think would
>>be a kind of deformation of their roots.
>
>Narrative is in the brain of the listener and narrative music is
>whatever the human brain can hang narratives onto.
>"NarrativeS" is important because no music is exhausted by
>narratalogical exegesis. Art is always ambiguous, so that the
>realities it seems to pin mutate, are open and always available.
>
>-- eliot
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