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Samuel Vriezen  
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 More options Nov 4 2003, 2:33 pm
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From: Samuel Vriezen <sqv.doesnt.want.s...@xs4all.nl>
Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2003 20:32:31 +0100
Local: Tues, Nov 4 2003 2:32 pm
Subject: Re: Not really composing
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knud wrote:
>>It seems hard to be "original,"

>      Original and good are not neccesarily synonymous. Brahms wrote some good
> stuff even if he didn't practice flagrant originality. Not everything has to be
> radical and "new".

But new works do have to be new.

> At this point in music history, the reliance on "sound
> effects" and novelty has lost it's appeal for many. Now the meat seems to take
> center stage again. Novelty is only good in a meaty context. Novelty for it's
> own sake has spawned endless orchestral works with xylophone obbligato. Excuse
> me while I yawn.

Any value can serve as an excuse for bad music. But I can't see how one
can tire of newness. It seems almost logically impossible. Unless the
definition of new would be having a xylophone, but that's not the case.

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samuel
free.concerten.fr


 
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