source file: mills2.txt Date: Tue, 7 Nov 1995 05:05:08 -0800 Subject: Re: Valuable Experiences From: jpff@maths.bath.ac.uk Message written at 6 Nov 1995 22:36:28 +0000 In-reply-to: <951105190730_71670.2576_HHB36-1@CompuServe.COM> (message from Gary Morrison on Sun, 5 Nov 1995 11:12:12 -0800) I am not in the league of creating a CD (I am just an academic, and not even a musical one to boot) but there is one part of Gary's message which worries me -- I have said this before to individuals but not publically. I have a piece of (what I call) music which took me many times of listening before I decided that I like it. I really do, and I play it sometimes in the privacy of my office for the delightful close pitched melodic fragments. I am not asking you to like it, but to worry about the effect of not liking it until I had played it tens of times. There is a problem with many works I hear, that they are created to be "catchy" as otherwise they will never be played again. On the other hand there are works which I dimmly remember, which I would like to hear over again, but I cannot as they did not have a sufficient gimick, so they are lost (at least to me). I do not know either CD to which Gary refers, but I have doubts as to whether he is right. I can remember thinking Wagner was a total bore (but now I am happy to sit through a cycle), and thinking that Haydn was dull, and I will not repeat my reaction to JSBach... In those cases others had decided on the quality over the years, and I had further opportunities. In the case of much new music the need for a catchy tune seems of greater importance than depth. Oh well! Back to programming. ==John ffitch Received: from eartha.mills.edu [144.91.3.20] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Tue, 7 Nov 1995 16:44 +0100 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id GAA14730; Tue, 7 Nov 1995 06:44:12 -0800 Date: Tue, 7 Nov 1995 06:44:12 -0800 Message-Id: Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu