Master Inferno: Oh, there's still good work being done out there in classical music, just as there are decent figurative painters and decent versifying poets. Unfortunately, all the above are rearguard actions that aren't represented in big enough numbers to affect the prevailing drift. But as I say, that could change.
Odd1: Love ELO, and love the piece that you link! I also love H. Rider Haggard, Tolkien, and Agatha Christie, but accept that their stuff isn't trying to hit the heights of a Proust, Mann, or Joyce, which is what I'm aiming at when I say "high art." Acknowledging that something fails to reach those rarefied heights isn't a slam. As for literature, so for music.
Quag15: I can only say that we differ sharply & fundamentally on what directions are worthwhile for music, and what counts as musical development (e.g., a grand mal seizure isn't "coping" with epilepsy, to my mind). May the best aesthetic win!
And finally, I agree wholeheartedly that "if it sounds good, it is good." That doesn't mean, though, that educated ears can't distinguish among good, great, and transcendent; I'd like to see our musical conventions develop in a way that maximizes the scope for the last, while not shorting the value of the simply good.
edited 3rd Mar '15 7:44:55 PM by Jhimmibhob
"She was the kind of dame they write similes about." —Pterodactyl Jones
Master Inferno: Oh, there's still good work being done out there in classical music, just as there are decent figurative painters and decent versifying poets. Unfortunately, all the above are rearguard actions that aren't represented in big enough numbers to affect the prevailing drift. But as I say, that could change.
Odd1: Love ELO, and love the piece that you link! I also love H. Rider Haggard, Tolkien, and Agatha Christie, but accept that their stuff isn't trying to hit the heights of a Proust, Mann, or Joyce, which is what I'm aiming at when I say "high art." Acknowledging that something fails to reach those rarefied heights isn't a slam. As for literature, so for music.
Quag15: I can only say that we differ sharply & fundamentally on what directions are worthwhile for music, and what counts as musical development (e.g., a grand mal seizure isn't "coping" with epilepsy, to my mind). May the best aesthetic win!
And finally, I agree wholeheartedly that "if it sounds good, it is good." That doesn't mean, though, that educated ears can't distinguish among good, great, and transcendent; I'd like to see our musical conventions develop in a way that maximizes the scope for the last, while not shorting the value of the simply good.
edited 3rd Mar '15 7:44:55 PM by Jhimmibhob
"She was the kind of dame they write similes about." —Pterodactyl Jones