What's really weird is that I can easily see people who listen to some of
the 'advanced' bands & their lyrics could easily track both contemporary
poetry & more 'classical' music if they only gave it a chance -- but they
dont because it is represented to them as 'difficult,' 'obscure,' etc.
I mean some electronic stuff, that's still heard as somehow 'pop' is at
least as dissonant as anything we've been mentioning here.
So, mayeb it's the way it's presented, too...?
I love melody, mind you, but also like to see the 'beautiful' twigged. And
I hear a rare kind of beauty in Berg, etc, or Ives, or many of the
others....
Doug
Douglas Barbour
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University of Alberta
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