I know there are a number of questions I haven't answered,I,m sorry. I
might fish some of them from the upper reaches of my inbox if they,re
still there. But I have an awful lot to do at present and a word
processor behaving like a demented ape (the small ones with long tails
that swing through the tree canopy at great speed and you never know
where they'll end up).
I shan't join in this revival but I'll say that I doubt if it will get
anywhere without some specific examples which everyone knows or can
get at. Somebody needs to say "Here's this poem written or spoken and
now here is the same poem made into a song. The aesthetic (or
semantic?) difference is... and then here's this song which has
always been a song and here's its text without the singing... and so
on.
I don't think Jamie and David are talking about the same kind of
song or poetry or music, but I don't know what kinds they are talking
about, except I think Jamie means written music which "sets" a pre-
existing poem, broadly "classical". David may be talking about singer-
songwriter stuff -- I don't know but I don't think his idea of song
includes Schönberg. I think my notion of song is broad, and global,
but it doesn't include Bob Dylan, who I probably last listened to
about 45 years ago.
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