I can think of a great deal of literature I've enjoyed less than that passage. I'm developing a dangerous taste for the language of post-structural critique.
Hell, I could develop a taste for it with that as the model. Why aren't the essays I read as enjoyable as that? *sigh*
I can only think of a few composers (and I'm sure you can guess who they are :D ) who seem to evoke something language can't; the vast majority of Western music is subordinate to language, or at best equal to it. That seems to be reversed for the other musicians in my department, though.
Huh. That's interesting. I of course am no musician, but I always saw the two forms as...not being competitive, but rather working along parallel tracks. They evoke the same emotions, but in different ways, and whether you respond better to one or the other depends on you as a person, your mood that day, or other factors peculiar to the one doing the responding.
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Date: 2009-03-26 03:28 pm (UTC)Hell, I could develop a taste for it with that as the model. Why aren't the essays I read as enjoyable as that? *sigh*
I can only think of a few composers (and I'm sure you can guess who they are :D ) who seem to evoke something language can't; the vast majority of Western music is subordinate to language, or at best equal to it. That seems to be reversed for the other musicians in my department, though.
Huh. That's interesting. I of course am no musician, but I always saw the two forms as...not being competitive, but rather working along parallel tracks. They evoke the same emotions, but in different ways, and whether you respond better to one or the other depends on you as a person, your mood that day, or other factors peculiar to the one doing the responding.