[lbo-talk] The Death of Classical Music (da capo, con brio)
Michael J. Smith
mjs at smithbowen.net
Wed Apr 4 15:23:39 PDT 2007
On Wednesday 04 April 2007 04:57 pm, Chris Doss wrote:
>
> --- "Michael J. Smith" <mjs at smithbowen.net> wrote:
> What's
> > the musical significance of difficulty, anyway?
> >
>
> Not difficulty, but complexity, which results in
> difficulty.
So... what's the musical significance of complexity?
Incidentally, in my experience, complexity and difficulty
in music are two very different things. There's very difficult
music that's really shallow and one-idea'd, and very easy
simple-seeming music that you can never get to the end of.
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--Michael J. Smith
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