Originally posted by PDG:
And the moon is made of cheese. I think I've heard everything now....(No wonder Rod's staying away). No other art form, whether Shakespeare (who didn't exist, by the way), paintings, sculpture, etc. can have the power to move us as deeply as great music because music moves. It is not a static thing where all the pleasure can be assimilated or enjoyed at once.
[This message has been edited by PDG (edited 10-31-2006).]
And the moon is made of cheese. I think I've heard everything now....(No wonder Rod's staying away). No other art form, whether Shakespeare (who didn't exist, by the way), paintings, sculpture, etc. can have the power to move us as deeply as great music because music moves. It is not a static thing where all the pleasure can be assimilated or enjoyed at once.
[This message has been edited by PDG (edited 10-31-2006).]
People have different psyches and different things affect different people. I think in general terms you are absolutely correct that music is the art that reaches most deeply within because it is dynamic--yet at the same time because of its transitory nature we are often left yearning more. But a statue or a painting does not "go away" so easily. There are paintings that move me very deeply, yet the affect is very different from the effect of a Beethoven Symphony; different emotions are evoked. Because that music has rhythm (speaking generically) and sound it also has a physical connection in ways that other art forms do not have.
(If you want some of that green cheese let me know, maybe I can sneak a piece for you.)
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