In article <slrnd9ks4c.5ue.slvrmn@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
Albert Silverman <slvrmn@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>On 2005-05-29, Michael Mossey <michaelmossey@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Albert Silverman wrote:
>>> On 2005-05-29, Michael Mossey <michaelmossey@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > You can chop up anything and then say that you "need to understand
the
>>> > pieces before putting them together," but the concept of "putting
them
>>> > together" is only relevant because you first chopped it up.
>>>
>>> Nonsense
>>>
>>> >
>>> > I.e., in real music the "chords" are always in a context and cannot
be
>>> > understood separately from that context.
>>> >
>>> They certainly *can* be understood out of context, just as a noun or
verb
>>> or adverb or clause or subject or predicate, etc., etc., can be
understood
>>> apart from a literary context.
>>
>> Wrong analogy.
>>
>> First of all, the "flow" of poetry or literature---what makes it work
>> as poetry and literature, what makes it elegant (or not)---cannot be
>> understood by looking at words in isolation.
>>
>> Yes, you can define a word---because a word usually denotes a concept.
>> The difference is that chords don't denote anything. So there is
>> *only* the flow. Which can only be understood in context.
>
>A chord is an element of musical organization.
>
>This is a concept which you do not understand.
>
>But your understanding or non-understanding of this fact has nothing at
>all to do with its existence. In other words, you cannot "non-understand"
>it out of existence.
>
>
>
>Albert Silverman
>(Al is in Wonderland!)
>where residents would like to banish from existence that which they do
not
>understand
>
>
>
>>
>> Mike
>> (don't reply to michaelmossey@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Instead,
>> m|p|m|At|a|l|u|m|n|i|Dot|c|a|t|e|c|h|Dot|e|d|u )
>>
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