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- From: mangoe@cs.umd.edu (Charley Wingate)
- Newsgroups: rec.music.compose
- Subject: Re: Regarding the Questionable use of the Word -> Advance
- Message-ID: <62999@mimsy.umd.edu>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 03:48:54 GMT
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- Vance Maverick writes:
- >I haven't heard too many relativists in music departments, or too much
- >explicitly listener-oriented talk about music.
-
- In the days when I was a university choral member, we sang stuff all over
- the map, including some stuff which could be characterized as agressively
- modern. I have since come to understand that a lot of this stuff was
- written to be performed rather than to be heard.
-
- Most of my composition is for church use; in this context it is rarely
- appropriate to perform this sort of epater-le-bourgeous music. And it in
- fact makes composition more difficult-- especially when your powers of
- performance (such as your local church choir) are limited. And thus, it
- requires discipline which must at the same time interact with creativity.
- When the third ingredient is added-- when the music forces itself upon you--
- than is when you can compose. After that point, it may require a lot of
- surgery, but at least it lives.
- --
- C. Wingate + "The peace of God, it is no peace,
- + but strife closed in the sod.
- mangoe@cs.umd.edu + Yet, brothers, pray for but one thing:
- tove!mangoe + the marv'lous peace of God."
-