[lbo-talk] Age

[joanna bujes]

Intricacy is not necessarily a virtue: I love Louie Louie & House of the 
Rising Sun & James Brown, etc. When you're dancing, intricacy gives you 
a little more to work with, that's all. But even "simple" songs...or 
maybe especially simple musical lines represent a lot of cultural 
working through. The "simplicity" is deceptive. This is the way that 
Mozart's music gets simpler and simpler as he goes along, but also 
deeper. "Magic Flute" is a relatively late composition and the product 
of a second innocence.

Joanna

Miles Jackson wrote:


>On Sat, 9 Oct 2004, joanna bujes wrote:
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>>Which is why the "progress" of having music available to everyone who
>>has an electric plug has had a negative impact on the development and
>>appreciation of music. I never learned a musical instrument myself. My
>>parents' attitude was "If you're not Mozart, what's the point?" But I
>>did spend fifteen years learning belly dance. At the end of that time,
>>learning to move to the many, many layers of intricate rhythmical
>>patterns that form middle-eastern/north-african music, "rock" is a
>>threadbare creature. I still enjoy it, but keep wandering where the
>>other layers are.
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>>Joanna
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>Why does music have to have intricate layers?  There's nothing missing
>from a three-chord rock song like Louie Louie or a 12-bar blues song;
>granted, they're not intricate, rhymically layered musical compositions,
>but they're not missing something that should be there.  (Isn't there
>something beautiful about the repetitive simplicity of a one-chord James
>Brown song that goes on for 8 minutes?)
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>Miles
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