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From: hsd@uvacs.UUCP (Harry S. Delugach)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: Science Fiction in Music
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Date: Thu, 18-Jul-85 13:07:21 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 18 13:07:21 1985
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>>I've been following SF-LOVERS for about 9 months now and I've seen
>>many forms of SF discussed with the exception of one which I find
>>surprising. Nobody ever seems to talk about music, either its SF
>>content or the influences it may have had on some piece of SF writing.

>
>I concur.  And as an attempt to come up with a gap-bridging
>conversation-starter, can anyone think of interesting examples of written SF
>in which music played a dominant theme?  One such might be Melinda
>Snodgrass's Star Trek novel, _The_Tears_of_the_Singers_.

Perhaps these are more in the realm of fantasy (as opposed to science fiction),
but Anne McCaffrey's Dragon series generally employ music and musicians, and
a couple of them have been centered around music.

Sometimes music which is unheard by the reader can create interesting moods,
since the reader's imagination supplies its own sounds to the music's
(written) description.


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Harry S. Delugach   University of Virginia, Dept. of Computer Science
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