Jarod and Miss Parker (simba@eznet.net)
Wed, 1 Oct 1997 06:24:38 +0100
Magnus:
> You're a teacher, wouldn't you know? :-) Ok, maybe music
> isn't directly intellectual patterns.
Just to reply to this one sentence: music may not be entirely intellectual
pattern, but there is certainly a good degree of that, in the mathematical
relationships that govern tonalities. Any introductory course in Music
Theory will reveal a vast realm of intellectual pattern behind music, in
the relations of keys to one another and in the chord progressions used.
Many of the 20th century efforts to abandon tonal systems only
replaced them with other systems, or other intellectual patterns, as it
were.
Now an interesting question arises: the essence of, say, Mozart's
40th symphony is different from the intellectual patterns that govern
it. But in what way is that essence (Quality) dependent on the
intellectual pattern? I think there is something more than mere
foundationalism, as in the case of the novel's relationship to the
voltages in the computer's memory that represent it. Surely there
is some dependence, but what? In what way does the essence
of the symphony emerge from the intellectual pattern?
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