A slightly different point, but when I brought up the possibility of current composers writing in the old styles and thus creating attractive music, several people told me that it’s simply too hard to write music in an old style.
There seemed to be a strong consensus there, but perhaps the problem is that they were applying too high a standard of authenticity. I’d be content with music which supplied many of the pleasures of baroque or classical—it doesn’t have to pass for period music to a well-informed listener.
I have a notion that you can tell which sf artists have been to art school. The composition, anatomy, and perspective are all excellent, but there’s no sense of motion.
When I say it’s a notion, I mean that I haven’t checked it in any way, it just seems like a plausible way of explaining paintings with those characteristics.
So far as mathematics is concerned, aren’t there two streams—empirical and for the pleasure of the mathematicians? Neither of these are the same as working on whatever math is publishable, though.
A slightly different point, but when I brought up the possibility of current composers writing in the old styles and thus creating attractive music, several people told me that it’s simply too hard to write music in an old style.
There seemed to be a strong consensus there, but perhaps the problem is that they were applying too high a standard of authenticity. I’d be content with music which supplied many of the pleasures of baroque or classical—it doesn’t have to pass for period music to a well-informed listener.
I have a notion that you can tell which sf artists have been to art school. The composition, anatomy, and perspective are all excellent, but there’s no sense of motion.
When I say it’s a notion, I mean that I haven’t checked it in any way, it just seems like a plausible way of explaining paintings with those characteristics.
So far as mathematics is concerned, aren’t there two streams—empirical and for the pleasure of the mathematicians? Neither of these are the same as working on whatever math is publishable, though.