From: Valuemetaphysics@aol.com
Date: Sun Feb 15 2004 - 20:31:04 GMT
In a message dated 2/15/04 7:20:52 PM GMT Standard Time, RycheWorld@aol.com
writes:
> Platt,
>
> Now we're talking "opinions".
>
> Dan
>
Hi Platt and Dan,
I would urge us to look at SQ-SQ coherence between patterns as the mark of
excellence. Therefore, the mark of excellence in music is exceptional SQ-SQ
coherence.
Important: The coherence includes the patterns of the audience and the
music/players/technological reproduction. So, opinions vary, but SQ-SQ tension is
common to all music experience and is the mark of excellence.
Side note: I feel this provides a good foundation for the claim that digital
formats are too good at what they do. I feel a reproduction which is exactly
the same, damn near it, every time will produce strong static associations and
therefore die. But vinyl plays with minute variations everytime it is played?
Thus, there is always something different, even if it is a new scratch or
surface noise?
A musician cannot play the same piece the same time every time, so live music
is Dynamic.
A concert pianist does not practice in order to play the same piece the same
time, all the time; rather he/she practices in order to destroy static
patterns of technique and open up to 'interpretation.' In that interpretation, which
transcends any mode of music notation, the individual Dynamic performance is
revealed.
That goes for rock musicians also. My favourite, Mr. Hackett, has begun
playing improvised sections in his concert in order to loosen up his musicians and
free them of their tendency to play too clinically and too technically.
Indeed, SQ-SQ coherence is a workable definition of beauty and excellence i
feel.
So, the music Dan finds coherent - that is, his relationship as a patterned
reality with DQ lies in SQ-SQ tension. This relationship, tension, coherence is
certainly evident in the music Dan has declared he feels to be Dynamic. I
agree with him there.
I also agree that Mozart has produced some of the most exceptional coherence
in SQ-SQ tension the humans have ever created. But, we simply cannot dismiss
everything that is less than the very best?
I would also consider the relationship between notation and improvisation?
Could it be maintained that good notated music of a high Quality is notated
improvisation? Thus we see the relationship between composition and free playing
is in the static description and not in the Quality of the work?
For example, how much music did Mozart 'dream' before he wrote it? Dave
Brubeck once arrived at a radio station and told the host he had written a tune
about her (Marion McPartland - you can hear it on the CD, 'So what's new?)
McPartland asked Brubeck how the tune went? Brubeck answered, 'I don't know, i
haven't played it yet.' Brubeck had written it in his head on the flight down to
New York.
All the best,
Mark
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