Re: [Harp-L] What music does to me

["Dave Murray" <dmurray777@xxxxxxx>]

<<<< Virtuosity may not make better music. Show-off super riffs and such 
that display the players skill often become noise to my unsophisticated ear. 
I can't follow it, and it pulls me out of the music.>>>>

<< However, you seem to consider in the second part of your sentence that 
virtuosity is not good music because it displeases you ("I can't follow it, 
and it pulls me out of the music") which I would dispute since it seems to 
me our personal appreciation does not make music good or bad.>>

I didn't really make a blanket statement that it is bad. I only said that 
depending upon the sophistication of the listeners ear, virtuosity displays 
could take the music beyond that listeners ability to follow it. At that 
point, for that listener, it becomes noise, rather than music. I did clearly 
reference it to me, but I doubt that the statement is unique to me.

Peace and music,
Dave