Re: MD SQ-SQ tension in Mozart's Symphony No38

From: Valuemetaphysics@aol.com
Date: Sat Feb 14 2004 - 17:15:19 GMT

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    Dear Platt,
    If everything is Quality, then banging on trash cans is Quality; so is dog
    shit.
    However, we can distinguish banging on trash cans from Mozart's Symphony No.
    38 and dog shit.
    The question is why there is a distinction, and the MoQ provides answers. You
    know that as well as anyone and i will not insult you.

    But this is not to dismiss the experience of the way for those who can
    appreciate trash can music. Trash can music is in the moment just as listening to
    Mozart's Symphony No. 38 is in the moment, and that can be a good thing for
    insight.

    I have played in a Samba band and found the experience one of the most
    Dynamic in my life. A dozen people co-ordinated in complex rhythm takes you right up
    to the moment - you are in the moment. If i ever get the opportunity to teach
    the MoQ, Samba band playing will be one of the experiences i should like to
    use to indicate SQ-SQ tension at work. So will Mozart's Symphony No. 38.

    Dog shit will not come into it.

    Now i wish to state that i feel it to be an absolute moral imperative for
    those of higher Quality to help those of lower Quality. So, if i can use trash
    can music as a point of entry into Mozart's Symphony No. 38, then it is moral
    that i should do it. That it can be done i have little doubt, for the way is the
    important feeling to convey, not the static patterns of the music.
    If we are lucky to be able to appreciate the best in art, we must never
    dismiss those who cannot. I feel that to be immoral.

    And now to the matter of spirit. Poets talk of the spirit, but there is no
    spirit in the MoQ - no substantial spirit which adheres through change. The only
    force is DQ, with a cloud of static patterns atmospherically clinging to the
    cutting edge of reality. The weather changes but DQ remains. Mozart's Symphony
    No. 38 is a Summers' excellence - trash can music is an overcast afternoon
    wish intermittent sunshine.

    And now the forecast for next week...

    All the best.
    Mark :)

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