Guest guest Posted July 3, 2003 Report Share Posted July 3, 2003 Words are the equivalent of either illustrations in books, which tie you irrevocably down to one interpretation of the words, or of movies, which offer up pre-digested imagery where you might have thought of many other things. This was one of the early objections to music videos, the long-running cautionary example having been the way the old Lone Ranger TV show spoiled the William Tell Overture for millions by forever linking that wonderful galloping music with a picture of Clayton Moore and Jay Silverheels shooting at the camera truck. And can anyone hear Richard Strauss's Also Sprach Zarathustra without at once thinking of Kubrick's spaceships and monoliths and primates in 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY? So you see, sometimes the pure music is better, for those of us who enjoy imagining and who can interpret mood from pure sound, etc. And if you want pure anger, try Prokofiev's Battle With God. On Thursday, July 3, 2003, at 08:44 PM, wrote: > Message: 17 > Thu, 03 Jul 2003 14:37:14 -0400 > " Pixx " <lists > Re: Music Needs No Words > > I have to agree with you here; I much prefer music without words. I > feel the words get in the way, most of the time. > ~Pixx > > The Stewarts wrote: > Try Beethoven's " Eroica " Symphony or the Tchaikovsky's 1812 > Overture > or Stravinksky's Rites of Spring or any number of other orchestral > pieces that made bold statements without a lyric or program to be > found. > > " Life results from the non-random survival of randomly varying replicators. It is grindingly, creakingly, crushingly obvious that if Darwinism was really a theory of chance, it could not work. " --Richard Dawkins Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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