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On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 01:40:32 GMT
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nick c <n-chen@comcast.net> wrote:

> Confused wrote:
>
> > <snip> author information...wouldn't want to embarrass anyone...
> >
> > > There is a fine line between what is considered
> > > art and what is considered trash
> >
> >
> > I guess Picasso proved there was no line between trash
> > and art. Some of his best work came from trash heaps.
>
> That so?

Yes. That is so.

> What trash heaps did they come from?

Where ever he found one, and the heaps came
from other people's thrown way stuff.

> > > and rules have a great deal to do with creative acceptance.
> >
> > What is "creative acceptance"?
>
> What you like, you like.

There are no rules for that. ;^)

> > > IMOP, those who tend to think esoterically may oftentimes be
> > > confused as to not recognizing a rule is being applied in
> > > support of a technique which is being born. Oh, to burst
> > > self-made images of sophistication.
> >
> > Translation, please?
>
> Doesn't need one.

Ahhh... artistic writing...

> > > Begin at the beginning; what is art.
> > >
> > > Art is defined and accepted as being works of human creativity.
> >
> > If that is the definition of art, then there are NO rules.
>
> There are rules, but you have the option not to recognize them.

Perfect usenet comeback. Edumacated mumbo-jumbo.


> > > One of the recognized branches of art encompass, music,
> > > dance, literature, and painting. There are rules in
> > > each of these categories.
> >
> > (this should be interesting)
> >
> > > Dance: The rule of dance is rhythm. <snip sequencing>
> >
> > If there were *one* rule it would be balance.
>
> Don't know much about dancing, huh.

No, you don't. One cannot have rhythm without balance, so if there is
"a rule" then balance must take precedence over rhythm.

> > > Music: The rule of music is the musical scale.
> > > Within the use of the musical scale is the rule time.
> >
> > You're not a musician, huh.
>
> I play Clarinet.

[insert woodwind joke here - point made ;-]

> Judging from your comments you're not a musician. Huh.

Bzzzzzzt. Wrong.

(I never would have thought a musician would define THE RULE of music
because there isn't ONE rule.)

Time and scale are independent. The concept of a single "rule" for
music is a false concept. Encompasing time inside the structure of a
scale is false.

If there is a rule for any specific piece of music, it would be

"You either like it or you don't."

> > > Literature: The rule of literature is governed by style,
> > > requiring a subject.
> >
> > But, what is the rule?
>
> Hey, who else holds your hand during the day.

I *thought* you were simply trolling.

<SNIP>

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The rule is - killfile the aholes again. Eventually they will vanish for
good. Bye, Roland

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"Roland Karlsson" <roland_dot_karlsson@bonetmail.com> wrote in message
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> "Tony" <tspadaro@nc.rr.com> wrote in
> news:suWAd.15351$kc6.843477@twister.southeast.rr.com:
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> > I know from past discussions that you are not very bright, Roland
>
> Well - thank you.
>
> > but you
> > have outdone yourself with stupidity this time.
>
> One tries to do the best.
>
> > Get a job in accounting, son. You will never be a photographer - a
> > writer, a painter, a sculptor, or even a greeting card artist. You are
> > too rigid to even know when you've been lampooned. (CLUE - YOU ARE THE
> > ONE MAKING ALL THE STUPID RULES).
> > Go forth and add up columns of numbers - they have no sense of
> > adventure,
> > happily obey strong rules, never contradict anything even on the most
> > basic level and don't ever argue with your assinine prounouncements.
> > It's a good income too.
>
> Now --- please tell me o almighty
>
> Is it a rule thet you shall not follow rules?
>
> I really want to know.
>
>
>
> /Roland
 

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Bach broke every rule of baroque composition. If you believe other than that
you know nothing of music.

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"Jan Böhme" <jan.bohme.REMOVE.THIS@sh.se> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 17:47:37 GMT, "Tony" <tspadaro@nc.rr.com> wrote:
>
> >Art IS breaking the rules. If you live within them you make decortions.
>
> This is the Romantic view of art. It is definitely not the only view
> of art that exists. It was unheard of before Romanticism and its
> apotheosis of the Lone Artistic Genius, who in addition preferably
> shouldn't be properly understood by his own contemporaries. And by and
> large, this rather conceited view of art has caused more harm than
> good since its inception.
>
> A musical master like Johann Sebastian Bach created great work - just
> as great as Mozart's - by strictly abiding to all the rules of
> composition that he learnt in his youth. His composing sons thought
> that the old man was frightfully out of fashion and not up to the
> times. And Mozart
>
> Still, it is his "oldfashioned", rule-abiding, music that has
> survived, and very little of Carl Philipp Emanuel's, or Wilhelm
> Friedemann's or Johann Christian's.
>
> Art isn't primarily about either abiding by rules, or breaking them.
> It is about creating life. Whether you manage to do this within a set
> of established rules, or by creating new ones is immaterial. The same
> goes for hackery. These days, you will find just as many hacks
> cluelessly breaking rules as there are hacks cluelessly abiding by
> them.
>
> And at least in music, the real innovators rarely made great art
> themselves. It took others to perfect the new rule systems that the
> innovators had established. Mozart, whom you mention, is a case in
> point. He wasn't much of an innovator himself - at least not up to his
> last works, where he starts to experiment quite boldly with long
> sequences of dissonances. The rule-breakers, whose rules he abided to,
> were people a generation older - for example the brothers Stamitz of
> Mannheim, or his own father Leopold. He used their rules. He simply
> made better music than them. It was only when he felt that he had
> exhausted the possibilities of the old rules that he started
> experimenting himself.
>
> Please also realise that for every great artist derided in his day as
> a wacko, there are hundreds of derided wackos in their day who are
> regarded as nothing but hacks today - if they are considered at all.
>
> Innvation per se is certainly no ticket to artistic greatness.
>
> Jan Böhme
> (a newbie in this group, and a relative newbie in photography, but
> with reasonable experience of most aspects of music)
 
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"Tony" <tspadaro@nc.rr.com> wrote in news:BT3Bd.44$z92.46497
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> The rule is - killfile the aholes again. Eventually they will vanish for
> good. Bye, Roland

Bye Tony.


/Roland
 
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Roland Karlsson wrote:
> "Tony" <tspadaro@nc.rr.com> wrote in news:BT3Bd.44$z92.46497
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>> The rule is - killfile the aholes again. Eventually they will vanish
>> for good. Bye, Roland
>
> Bye Tony.
>
>
> /Roland

Ah, the season of goodwill to all men!
 
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Roland Karlsson wrote:
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I note your comments.

> PS. The season of goodwill was rather disturbed by the Tsunami
> catastrophe in Asia. The latest figures was 100,000 dead in
> Indonesia alone. And the latest figures for missing Swedes on
> vacation in Thailand was 3,500. And the figures are still
> increasing.
>
> 2004 ended rather badly - lets hope for a better new year (when the
> mess has been sorted out in Asia).

Indeed yes - it seems that those destinations are more popular with Swedes
than Brits at this time of year. I remember visiting the memorial in
Norkopping to those lost from the Estonia, including the old folk from
Borlange (excuse spelling). I wonder where the next memorial will be?

David
 
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On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 07:24:55 GMT, "Tony" <tspadaro@nc.rr.com> wrote:

>Bach broke every rule of baroque composition. If you believe other than that
>you know nothing of music.

Indeed? Would you care to elaborate a bit more on this bold statement,
with special attention paid to his fugues?

Jan Böhme
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Felaktigheter utgör naturligtvis skönlitteratur.
 
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In article <qobet050osc1ilovu05e6m79i3bv8imkk5@4ax.com>,
Jan Böhme <jan.bohme@cut.this.out.bredband.net> wrote:

> On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 07:24:55 GMT, "Tony" <tspadaro@nc.rr.com> wrote:
>
>> Bach broke every rule of baroque composition. If you believe other than that
>> you know nothing of music.

> Indeed? Would you care to elaborate a bit more on this bold statement,
> with special attention paid to his fugues?

I'd be interested in that, myself.

When it comes to baroque, I though ole J.S. MADE the rules!

:)
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By breaking the existing rules.

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> In article <qobet050osc1ilovu05e6m79i3bv8imkk5@4ax.com>,
> Jan Böhme <jan.bohme@cut.this.out.bredband.net> wrote:
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> > On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 07:24:55 GMT, "Tony" <tspadaro@nc.rr.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Bach broke every rule of baroque composition. If you believe other than
that
> >> you know nothing of music.
>
> > Indeed? Would you care to elaborate a bit more on this bold statement,
> > with special attention paid to his fugues?
>
> I'd be interested in that, myself.
>
> When it comes to baroque, I though ole J.S. MADE the rules!
>
> :)
> JR
 
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"Tony" <tspadaro@nc.rr.com> wrote in news:wVKBd.14387$B66.328223
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> By breaking the existing rules.

He did not break all rules. He broke some and made some new ones.
But - he still used lots of rules for making music - the scale,
the rythm, the intonation, the .... To have a powerful ground
to start with you must use rules. Without rules you cannot
really accomplish anything.


/Roland
 

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