source file: mills2.txt Date: Wed, 1 Jan 1997 12:23:23 -0800 Subject: pure or just From: Gary Morrison <71670.2576@compuserve.com> > If however, we are driven to communicate our emotional response > to Music directly, why do we need to resort to words at all? I for one agree wholeheartedly. There is however an annoying little technical obstacle that humans only now are beginning to get around: It's not easy to put sounds into written communication. Perhaps one could argue that it's difficult or even foolhardy to discuss purely musical sensations in words, or perhaps even that it should not be attempted. Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Wed, 1 Jan 1997 21:43 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA06369; Wed, 1 Jan 1997 21:45:51 +0100 Received: from eartha.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA06366 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id MAA27221; Wed, 1 Jan 1997 12:45:47 -0800 Date: Wed, 1 Jan 1997 12:45:47 -0800 Message-Id: <199701011522_MC1-E20-3ABC@compuserve.com> Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu