[lit-ideas] Re: Religious Music
- From: Chris Bruce <bruce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 08:54:58 +0100
Re:
> Hey I actually like ... but it CERTAINLY IS NOT for the 'music'.
What is 'music', anyway?
"Is this music, yes or no? If I am answered in the affirmative,
I would say ... that it does not belong at all to the art which I
am in the habit of considering as music."
No - not a question about 'hip-hop', 'rock & roll', 'jazz', '20th
century
avant-garde', '12-tone', etc., etc., but a comment written in 1857
about
Beethoven's Fifth Symphony
(which in 1857 was already half a century old).
[Quotation taken from _The Musical Companion_,
A.L. Bacharach & J.R. Pierce, eds., Victor Gallancz, Ltd, 1977]
Chris Bruce
for whom music
(especially Beethoven)
is a form of 'religion', in
Kiel, Germany
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