Man, the tension/release goes right back to the first
inhalation/exhalation cycle performed by a human. It's all there,
regardless of gender considerations.
Dean
On Feb 4, 2005, at 5:41 PM, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote:
At 04:25 PM 2/4/05 -0800, Brad Beyenhof wrote:
On Sat, 05 Feb 2005 00:14:19 +0000, Owain Sutton
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
There have been some pretty intense commentaries about this
tension-release technique being sexually analogous and
gender-specific, and that in recent years, women composers have
emancipated their writing from the build-to-climax model implicit
in
harmonic and architectural tension-release, and that women
listeners
are drawn to the sound of the newer paradigm.
I'm just hoping that this whole description is a joke. If it's not,
then God help us.
It was. I've learned to take most anything Dennis B-K says with a
grain of salt, or a least a couple of smileys.
You should always do that. I really know nothing. I'm an observer and
pretty much of a skeptic about Western culture. But I really didn't
make
idea that up. And hearing it certainly got me to look at the kind of
music
that was coming into the show from the nonpop world. I make no claims,
but
I'm always interested.
Who can tell if it's true at this point so soon in the cultural shift,
if
there is one? I heard an extended talk late last year by Leonard
Schlain,
who claims to have identified the feminization of civilization because
of
television's iconography and computers' use of two-handed keyboard
work,
which have together moved society toward a gender-free God and
interest in
Native American culture because they light up the intuitive brain
hemisphere.
Dennis
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there are those who would knowingly disenfranchise generations of
humans by excising the practice and inculcation of an entire heritage
from our children’s curricula.
Dean M. Estabrook
Retired Church Musician
Composer, Arranger
Adjudicator
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