Re: musical genres

[Eliezer Kaplan <zelwel...>]

I said 'not me personally'.
But consider the novice listener.
(also, careful with the set theory around me, Seth- got an advanced degree
in that s*** :-)


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Seth Rogovoy" <seth(dot)rogovoy (at) verizon(dot)net>
To: "World music from a Jewish slant" <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
Sent: Monday, May 05, 2003 7:27 PM
Subject: RE: musical genres


> > So Bernstein's Mass gets lumped into the same category as
> > John Cage- and if I decide that I hate modern classical on
> > the basis of John Cage (not me
> > personally) then I can assume the Bernstein will be similar?
>
> Why would you make that assumption?
>
> Why would you assume that if C (Cage) is a subset of A (modern
> classical), and if
> B (Bernstein) is a subset of A, that C=B?
> or that C=A, as you seem to posit in your line of thinking?
>
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