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From: penrose@esosun.UUCP (Christopher Penrose)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Re: Degree Granting Inst. in Comp. Music (one more  time!)
Summary: me too.
Keywords: MRD issue #73
Message-ID: <619@esosun.UUCP>
Date: 26 Sep 90 20:55:13 GMT
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Reply-To: esosun!jesus!penrose@seismo.css.gov (Christopher Penrose)
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I would like to see this list also.  It would also be nice to find a 
university that tolerated a level of compositional freedom equal to
the freedom that studio artists enjoy.  I am quite tired and bored of
the narrow analysis curricula that schoenberg and schencker (I hope I 
spelled the latter incorrectly!) have left us.  There  are many musical 
worlds that can be created that notes on parchment cannot adequately 
communicate.  Academia seems to value these written scores more than music
itself.  This is a pathetic tragedy.  (Come on Roger, this is bait.) 
The composer should be allowed the freedom to determine not only their
compositional methods, but they should be allowed to determine their
own educational path.  The study of music should not resemble the study 
of medicine.  Listeners of "malformed" music are not going to bleed and die;
they will only leave.  The communicative potential of our collective 
homogenized music curricula pales beside the potential of facilitative
academic freedom.  Communication is valuable only to those who are 
willing.  I am willing to communicate in an academic setting if my differ-
ences are at least recognized and respected.  Institutions that refuse to
recognize my musical methods (ie digital signal representations/manipulations)
as viable will lose my respect and my contextual benefits.  However, state
funded schools have an obligation to meet the needs of all its students.  If
we choose to fund musical studies, the dispositions and methods of all music
students need to be identified and respected.  I thought that it was time to
remind academia of musical responsibility once again.  It is quite a shame;
they mock such responsibility. 


Christopher Penrose:	an uninstitutionalized composer

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