It’s so convenient to be able to say that, isn’t it? A great way to save oneself the trouble of having to enter a detailed technical discussion.
I’d like to have a more detailed discussion; my disinclination to do so up until now is a matter of short-term time constraints more than anything else.
However, unless you think it’s a genuinely open question whether “Mary Had A Little Lamb” is as interesting as the Eroica, I feel that such assertions are ultimately disingenuous.
I’m not a total aesthetic subjectivist when it comes to human music appreciation.
I do think that there are some genuinely differing aesthetic preferences between humans on account of differing genetic and environmental factors. For a simple example; I’m highly noise sensitive and this bars me from appreciating very loud music independently of how aesthetically valuable somebody who is not noise-sensitive might find it.
The question in my mind is not so much whether “Mary Had A Little Lamb” is as interesting as the Eroica as much as whether (for example) Philip Glass is as interesting as a famous academic contemporary composer. I find it quite possible that different people might have different views on this last point on account of having differing neurotypes.
I’d like to have a more detailed discussion; my disinclination to do so up until now is a matter of short-term time constraints more than anything else.
Right, but that’s the kind of thing that would enable one to evade a technical discussion (i.e. a semantic stopsign), and hence is an intellectual warning sign. (I don’t necessarily think evasion is your actual intent, of course).
I’m highly noise sensitive and this bars me from appreciating very loud music independently of how aesthetically valuable somebody who is not noise-sensitive might find it.
For the most part, at least in my opinion, the relevant musical variable is not absolute loudness measured in decibels, but relative loudness in the context of a piece. (Of course, the more degrees of loudness are used, the wider the range has to be in absolute terms.)
I’d like to have a more detailed discussion; my disinclination to do so up until now is a matter of short-term time constraints more than anything else.
I’m not a total aesthetic subjectivist when it comes to human music appreciation.
I do think that there are some genuinely differing aesthetic preferences between humans on account of differing genetic and environmental factors. For a simple example; I’m highly noise sensitive and this bars me from appreciating very loud music independently of how aesthetically valuable somebody who is not noise-sensitive might find it.
The question in my mind is not so much whether “Mary Had A Little Lamb” is as interesting as the Eroica as much as whether (for example) Philip Glass is as interesting as a famous academic contemporary composer. I find it quite possible that different people might have different views on this last point on account of having differing neurotypes.
Right, but that’s the kind of thing that would enable one to evade a technical discussion (i.e. a semantic stopsign), and hence is an intellectual warning sign. (I don’t necessarily think evasion is your actual intent, of course).
For the most part, at least in my opinion, the relevant musical variable is not absolute loudness measured in decibels, but relative loudness in the context of a piece. (Of course, the more degrees of loudness are used, the wider the range has to be in absolute terms.)
I’ll reply futher later.