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From: gtaylor@cornell.UUCP (Greg Taylor)
Newsgroups: net.music.classical
Subject: Re: Modern Classical Music
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Date: Wed, 30-May-84 16:08:13 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 30 16:08:13 1984
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I'm hazarding a guess here, but I'd be curious to know
how you feel you fare with the art (Literature, Theatre,
Visual Stuff) of the past century itself. While M. Hoshen
is not the source of the following judgement, he echoes
some of the superficial features one has encountered in
the 20th century discourse: the tendency to listen to
something "as music, period", the spoken or unspoken 
committment that music must have "beauty", and must or
should exist within the confines of the 19th century
view of art as the Academy, and the notion that there's
a sort of Darwinian arc of culture (which we're on the
slide side of ).

I intend this as no flame whatsoever, nor insult. I am,
however, interested to discover if those of you who
have trouble with the music of the modern world experience
similar difficulties with the products of modern culture
in general.......

g(STILL working on the libretto of Calvino's "Invisible
Cities")taylor@cornell
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