Doug Wagoner wrote in his review at Atlasphere http://www.theatlasphere.com/columns/040812_wagoner_concertoofdeliverance.php "Formal structures are the musical...
Monart wrote: the following was my roughly stated analogy of how I would compare a piece of (extended) musical work to a literary work like the novel (or the...
... Yes, i've heard about your essay, and haven't read it yet, but I will; it should be interesting. I did, however, have read your "Music and Perceptual...
Do anyone here know what's the "song and dance" theory of musical esthetics? At first thought, I'd say it's a view of music as being of, and for, singing and...
What is "inspired" music? Is it also "inspiring" music"? How does the "inspiration" that goes into creating a piece of music relate to the "inspiration" that...
I've set up the links feature page for this forum, and added some of the links that I have to webpages of Rand-influenced musicians, most of whom are...
I received a request to add an entry to the links page because the subscriber didn't know if he could add the entry himself. Let me clarify: if a subscriber...
The last spam messages and their sender have been deleted from the list. These rare but unavoidable intrusions are the price to be paid for the free Yahoo...
I wrote: "I would compare the *melody* to the plot, the voices (timbres) to the characters, and the harmony to the settings and scenes. Melody and plot is what...
Monart wrote a very long post, and some of his questions were interesting but tangential to the main point at contention, which is our disagreement as to ...
My thanks to Roger for his answers to my questions arising out of comparing melody to plot (or not), and for his elaboration of why he thinks melody is better...
Dear List Members (sorry for these comments being centered) -- although I have previously stressed my view that melody is more similar to literary character,...
Ugh! I just looked at the post I sent up on 9/19/04, and it's riddled with (HTML?) garbage. I have taken the liberty of reformatting the post as plain text and...
Hello, I've been occupied the past couple weeks with an unexpected encounter at SOLO-HQ <http://solohq.com/Forum/SOLOAnnouncements/0003.shtml>, and, as well as...
Dvorak: Maestro of Melody. His advice: "More melody. Don't be afraid of it." Dvorak, as described by musicologist Michael Hoffman: "In Dvorak there exists this...
Thank you for making these selections and posting them, Monart. It is inspiring to read letters that are so benevolent and respectful. That the subject is...
In commemoration of the Centenary of Ayn Rand's birth, February 2, a page has been created as a tribute to her life and work. You may be interested in checking...
Hello subscribers, I've been busy with getting started phase 2 (to run concurrently with phase 1) of marketing the album Concerto of Deliverance -- phase 2 to ...
More from "Two New Hours" list (not all were friendly on this topic). ... Subject: [2NH] Commercial vs Art Music Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 12:31:35 -0700 From:...
Once, when I was listening to the sweet, lyrical Andante of Shostokovich's 2nd Piano Concerto, I thought of Rand and checked out a few dates. Shostokovich's...
From: Grant Gilman To: Monart Pon ... This statement that Shostakovich "suffered...with little protest" is not entirely true. Since Stalin's media publicly...
Monart wrote: Grant wrote, "if you know the music [of Shostokovich]...and I mean REALLY know the music, then this element of protest and pain of persecution...
From: Grant GiGilmanTo: MoMonartoPon ... may be ... With all due respect to your opinion about the "courageousness" of ShShostakovich'susic, your statement...
Monart, If you don't have sufficient grounds to base your "message" on, then you shouldn't put it out in the first place unless you are willing to have it ...
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