On Tue, 30 Apr 2002 23:11:17 +0200 Guido Heldt
<gheldt@zedat.fu-berlin.de> writes:
> I'd prefer to turn the question around: More interesting than why
> people
> are interested in the "so-called emotional response to music" (why
> "so-called"? if it feels like emotions, it most probably is) seems
> to me the
> question why people are so persistently interested in "musical
> value" or "the
> work's artistic worth". Don't they trust their own responses to the
> music
> (emotional or otherwise) sufficiently to be able to do without
> musicologically, philosophically etc. authorized guidance?
>
> Guido Heldt
> gheldt@zedat.fu-berlin.de
Assuming this is addressed to me--
Well, simply from observation, I'd say that most people seem to do just
that. It's not inappropriate or unreasonable, however, to expect people
who feel called upon to do more than that--- i.e. musicologists, etc.--
to dig a bit deeper.
Theresa Muir
theresamuir@juno.com
Any fool can handle a crisis, it's this day-to-day that wears you out.
Anton Chekhov
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