Curmudgeon
6/5/2014 5:57:00 PM
On Thursday, June 5, 2014 1:06:14 PM UTC-4, Jerry Willard wrote:
> Civil War was not over slavery or states rights but rather about the correct way to play Joplin, which really proves how powerful music is because Joplin was born a few years after the end of the Civil War.
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> Well i guess i came out swinging! But its strange that we have these problems when we actually have piano rolls of the period of these composers playing their own pieces - that's not to say that we have to do them that way only that its good and helpful to know -- any music that is composed from the bottom up i. e. jazz, ragtime, baroque tends to have a flexible melodic top - how much is interpretive - what DRIVES ME CRAZY is the inflexible rules that people put to historical music as if they have joplin's or dowland's email address. Any historical performance has to come form years of listening to absorb a style and not just a series of memorized rules - YIKES there i am swinging again - time to go back into my home under the bridge
Some folks consider themselves privy to absolute truth - they are not to be argued with, since they are never wrong, and the matters they concern themselves with are not subject to discussion. For a number of examples, look no further than Capitol Hill, or Faux News.