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Toccata and Fugue: Ridiculous or Sublime?

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Alphonsus Jr.

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Dec 4, 2012, 1:03:35 PM12/4/12
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Take a look/listen:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxWNmGGItXg&feature=share

I can't decide: Is the playing of this piece on the guitar ridiculous or sublime? Sublime for THIS player but a ridiculous attempt for most others?

Cactus Wren

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Dec 4, 2012, 3:32:32 PM12/4/12
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I sure hope you can decide, because if you don't have the absolute truth, then you are WRONG! *

*that was worth using my yearly all-caps

Alan Turing

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Dec 4, 2012, 4:19:24 PM12/4/12
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I was somewhat out of breath at the end from just watching.
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ronaldg...@gmail.com

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Dec 5, 2012, 10:37:08 AM12/5/12
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It is both ridiculous and sublime simultaneously. That's part of the appeal.

Cactus Wren

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Dec 5, 2012, 1:02:49 PM12/5/12
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On Wednesday, December 5, 2012 8:37:08 AM UTC-7, ronaldg...@gmail.com wrote:
> It is both ridiculous and sublime simultaneously. That's part of the appeal.

Sometimes, when something is really good, I say, "that's ridiculous". Is that kind of what you're saying?

Gerry

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Dec 5, 2012, 1:06:38 PM12/5/12
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Like when it's good people all it bad? Or when it's great people call it sick?
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time. -- W. H. Auden

Cactus Wren

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Dec 5, 2012, 1:31:51 PM12/5/12
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> Like when it's good people all it bad? Or when it's great people call it sick?

Yes, probably the next in the progression.

ronaldg...@gmail.com

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Dec 5, 2012, 8:50:42 PM12/5/12
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Kind of, I am saying this arrangement captures the spirit of the work on an instrument that really shouldn't be capable of doing so which makes it sound ridiculously over the top. This a sublime thing.
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