On the contrary, they’re entirely different. The melodic vocabulary, the harmonic vocabulary, the structure on which the changes are built…
As well tell me that hack-and-slash sword-and-sorcery is “not far off” from The Lord of the Rings. And I have had book recommendations handed to me on that basis.
My denigration of jazz should not be allowed to disguise that this isn’t about whether the thing is done well or badly by its own standards, but that I have no appreciation or feeling for the kind of thing that it is. (Your clip had no emotional effect on me whatever. Do you not think I’ve heard dozens of things of the same kind and caliber before? Usually on used book store sound systems, where jazz of exactly this sort is the music of choice.) Whereas I do have great love for classical variation technique, which should be enough to demonstrate that they’re entirely different things.
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Date: 2024-11-12 10:18 am (UTC)As well tell me that hack-and-slash sword-and-sorcery is “not far off” from The Lord of the Rings. And I have had book recommendations handed to me on that basis.
My denigration of jazz should not be allowed to disguise that this isn’t about whether the thing is done well or badly by its own standards, but that I have no appreciation or feeling for the kind of thing that it is. (Your clip had no emotional effect on me whatever. Do you not think I’ve heard dozens of things of the same kind and caliber before? Usually on used book store sound systems, where jazz of exactly this sort is the music of choice.) Whereas I do have great love for classical variation technique, which should be enough to demonstrate that they’re entirely different things.