Re: (OT) Music
| From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, June 11, 2002, 5:12 |
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And Rosta scripsit:
> Which kinds of music? I, sans training, appreciate some music that to
> others is mere cacophony. (And vice bloody versa when my wife goes on
> a Wagner binge!)
Quite so. Wagner's operas, as Mark Twain told us, are better than they
sound. I suppose what music one appreciates as a matter of first, and
what as a matter of second nature, is relative to the perceiver.
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han mathon ne chae, a han noston ne 'wilith. --Galadriel, _LOTR:FOTR_
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