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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 08:04:19 EST
- Sender: Discussions on all forms of Music <ALLMUSIC@AUVM.BITNET>
- From: Ken Koester <MAINT2@ERS.BITNET>
- Subject: Re: Take-home exam
- In-Reply-To: Message of Sun, 24 Jan 1993 11:25:50 CST from <U33963@UICVM>
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- On Sun, 24 Jan 1993 11:25:50 CST Little Inquisitor commanded:
- >A column by Alex Ross in yesterday's New York Times quotes the composer Alfred
- >Schnittke as saying that "comtemporary reality will make it necessary to exper
- >ience all the music one had heard since childhood, including rock and jazz and
- >all other forms, as a synthesis."If true, the Hegelian assertion is replete w/
- >suggestive possibilities (new idioms and paradigms) but also laden with danger
- >(homogenization, similarity, loss of identity and the commonplace). Discuss.
- >Post answers by Super-Bowl day.
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- Untrue; it is possible to experience the music as un-synthesized experiential
- chunks. Hegel, be damned!
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