[lbo-talk] More on science

joanna 123hop at comcast.net
Tue May 15 09:40:02 PDT 2007


As to the pianos question: who knew more Beethoven or the piano tuner?

Think about that question with relation to Bach -- who could build organs as well as write music for them -- and think of the difference it made in the impact he had on western harmonic theory and composition that he could do both.

(Actually, what is prfoundly interesting about Bach is that his music is muscular enough to be transposed to a variety of instruments, water glasses, tin drums, etc, without losing its compelling beauty. )

Joanna



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