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Turbulent Music, Turbulent Life

21 points by tintinnabula 5y ago

lioeters 5y ago
Promising start of an article about Beethoven, but it abruptly ended with: "Continue reading for just $1 an issue." --- > Should we think of music as a narrative that can also be expressed in words? Or does this betray the abstract, nonsemantic nature of musical thought? > ..Wagner claimed that Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, with its introduction of a chorus in the last movement, showed that the development of music could only be fulfilled if it was united with language, as in his own operas. For about a week, I've had in my head an on-going theme of thoughts, all about the relationship between music and language - sounds, words, and silence. Been writing a song called "Talk". ("Talk without talking / Walk without walking / And fly without even trying..") Then I came across a book titled, "Speaking the Piano". > "You must speak the piano." - Theodor Leschetizky to Artur Schnabel, as reported by Clifford Curzon A few days later, someone on HN commented with a poem called "The Quiet World", about the value of words and silence, about communicating without words. It can be read here: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49238/the-quiet-world https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49238/the-quiet-world
- echelon 5y ago
  > Promising start of an article about Beethoven, but it abruptly ended with: "Continue reading for just $1 an issue." I think p2p sharing of articles is something we should start exploring https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28454065 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28454065 It could be run through a neutral network model to reword the content and avoid copyright issues.
  - MisterTea 5y ago
    > It could be run through a neutral network model to reword the content and avoid copyright issues. Please no. There's enough mucking with information already.
    - echelon 5y ago
      It's a way to avoid copyright / piracy claims by recreating the work.
neonate 5y ago
https://archive.is/Wve79 https://archive.is/Wve79

21 points by tintinnabula 5y ago

Promising start of an article about Beethoven, but it abruptly ended with: "Continue reading for just $1 an issue." --- > Should we think of music as a narrative that can also be expressed in words? Or does this betray the abstract, nonsemantic nature of musical thought? > ..Wagner claimed that Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, with its introduction of a chorus in the last movement, showed that the development of music could only be fulfilled if it was united with language, as in his own operas. For about a week, I've had in my head an on-going theme of thoughts, all about the relationship between music and language - sounds, words, and silence. Been writing a song called "Talk". ("Talk without talking / Walk without walking / And fly without even trying..") Then I came across a book titled, "Speaking the Piano". > "You must speak the piano." - Theodor Leschetizky to Artur Schnabel, as reported by Clifford Curzon A few days later, someone on HN commented with a poem called "The Quiet World", about the value of words and silence, about communicating without words. It can be read here: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49238/the-quiet-world https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49238/the-quiet-world

echelon 5y ago
> Promising start of an article about Beethoven, but it abruptly ended with: "Continue reading for just $1 an issue." I think p2p sharing of articles is something we should start exploring https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28454065 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28454065 It could be run through a neutral network model to reword the content and avoid copyright issues.
- MisterTea 5y ago
  > It could be run through a neutral network model to reword the content and avoid copyright issues. Please no. There's enough mucking with information already.
  - echelon 5y ago
    It's a way to avoid copyright / piracy claims by recreating the work.

neonate 5y ago

https://archive.is/Wve79 https://archive.is/Wve79