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| Consequently every quality ascribed to music as such, such as rhythm,
harmony, tonality, melody, or even organization, is merely a quality of a
particular style or group of styles. Some other style might lack any or all
of these qualities and yet contain real music. |
| First of all, we need to get definitions straight. What does rock
mean? Does it have to have electric guitars? Does it have to have
vocals? Does it have to be based on blues progressions? Does it have
to be syncopated and in 4/4? Those may have been elements of the
original definition, but there are plenty of exceptions that people
would unquestioningly consider rock. To limit the definition of
rock to a description of the way rock started would be equivalent to
saying anything after Gregorian chant is not classical music. So, Im
going to propose some possible differences between rock and classical
music that denigrators of rock music would probably agree with. |
| I think this is true. I think that being able to hear the music in silence
and in ugly or difficult sounds might make one a better musician. But I do
not think all music is created equal. I think all sound and all silence has
the objective quality of music, if one listens carefully, ultimately because
nothing exists without the will of God the ultimate musician, but it may be
very difficult to hear, and even if heard it might not be as good as some
other music. |
| 2. Rock music is just about making money, while classical music is
about sincere expression of emotion/intellectual rigor. First of all,
classical composers have been known to sell out. Listening to Mozarts
late masterpieces shows his capacity for genius, but youd never know it
listening to most of the fluff he wrote to please the aristocracy.
Copland started writing his bland folk-inspired stuff only after he got
sick of being insulted by critics for his dissonant, Stravinsky-esque
and far superior early work. More importantly, though, there is plenty
of sincere expression of emotion and intellectual rigor in rock--not in
all rock, of course, but in some. Songs like Jefferson Airplanes
Comin Back To Me (no connection to the Celine Dion song) or The
Incredible String Bands First Girl I d are as poignant and
beautiful as Schuberts Die Erlkonig or Ives Tom Sails Away. And
as for intellectual rigor, there exist such things as rock fugues
(Gentle Giants On Reflection). There are al. |
| Members:
Prof. A. Akan, Dept. of Electr.Eng., University of Istanbul, Turkey.
Prof. D. Andina, Ciudad Universitaria, Madrid, Spain.
Prof. G. Antoniou, Montclair State University, New Jersey, USA.
Prof. V. Arunachalam, University of Los Andes, Bogota, Colombia.
Prof. R. Balocchi, University of Trendo, Italy.
Prof. M. Barbi, Inst.di Biofisica CNR, Pisa, Italy.
Prof. M. Belli, Physics Laboratory, Instit. Super. di Sanita, Roma,
Italy.
Prof. H.-H. Bothe, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark.
Prof. A. Cheer, University of California, California, USA.
Prof. S. Chillemi, Inst.di Biofisica CNR, Pisa, Italy.
Prof. R. Ciegis, Vilnius Technical University, Lithuania.
Prof. S. Dlay, University of Newcastle, UK.
Prof. A. Georgaki, Ionian University, Corfu, Greece.
Prof. D. Kalpic, University of Zagreb, Croatia.
Prof. V. Kluev, University of Aizu, Japan.
Prof. L. Leherte, Facultes Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix, Namur,
Belgium.
Prof. W. Leigh, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Flo. |
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