Stewart Pinkerton wrote:
On 3 Nov 2005 02:32:13 GMT, wrote:
Stewart Pinkerton wrote:
On 31 Oct 2005 00:02:18 GMT, wrote:
It's that simple. A musician could never evolve their performance
toward something wonderful if they weren't sensitive to all the small
changes along the way.
Suggesting otherwise is like suggesting that a legally-blind person
could learn to produce a finely detailed painting. The motor skills are
there, remember.. there's no reason a legally blind person couldn't
learn to move their hands in the way that produces the result.. except
this teeny little point that *they can't see what they are doing.*
Ah well, so much for Beethoven....................
Wow, really lame argument.
I bow to your superior experience in such matters.
Beethoven, of course, developed a very finely tuned mental model of
sound and conscious response to sound during the time he could hear.
Did he? Do you have evidence of this, or is it just more of your
baseless presumption? Some consider that he produced his finest work
*after* he became deaf, which is somewhat contrary to your assertion.
if you think that is contrary to my assertion, you are revealing your
ignorance of how composers work. Like many composers, Beethoven had a
"mental model" of sound.he could read a score and imagine how it
sounded --- and he must have been able to do this accurately in order
to produce great music after he went deaf. He got better at writing
scores through his whole life --- but it is unlikely his mental model
of sound got more accurate after he went deaf. In fact, some
commentators have pointed to specifi awkward
moments which Beethoven may have wanted to revise if he could have
heard them.
Mike