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Date Posted: 13:32:24 02/05/06 Sun
Author: Kimberly
Subject: Re: Quality Music
In reply to: Frank 's message, "Quality Music" on 05:59:49 04/09/05 Sat

I don't think this is really a valid question. Music is too subjective to label as "good quality" or "bad quality." It's like labeling an artist's painting - it can't be done. True, I don't always see the logic in a modern piece of art, but I don't think it's about logic. It's about how it makes you feel, how the artist (or composer) felt while making it, what led him or her to choose the colors (or tone colors) he or she did? While I am completely moved both by Van Gogh's Starry Night painting and by Chopin's Etude in E Major, someone else may be bored with both. Music is not about "quality," rather it is about emotions and passion.

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[> Re: Quality Music -- Dr. O., 09:46:21 02/09/06 Thu [1]

This is a good topic and an interesting discussion; I don't really disagree with anything you've said, but I want to frame the conversation in a slightly different way. I'll grant that students can learn something about music from any piece they play. However, isn't this a dangerous argument? Couldn't the same be said for other academic disciplines as well? For example, why not just read comic books in English/Literature classes? Certainly students can learn SOMETHING from reading comics. It's probably impossible to develop a list of criteria which separate good music from lesser music, as some of you have noted. However, it seems to me that as educators it's our job to try to make that identification, at least according to our own standards, and to program high quality music for our students. Our instructional time with them is so limited that we need to make the absolute most of it. Would you agree that there is more to learn from quality music than from more pedestrian music? I'l be interested in reading your thoughts about it.


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