Date: Sun, 10 Mar 1996 14:36:34 +0000
From: Eric Feinblatt <eric-AT-dorsai.org>
Subject: Re: Materialism and aesthetic pleasure


> 
> malgosia wrote:
> >
> > I am not aware of ever claiming that structural analysis itself is in any
> > way "privileged".  Saul said that a materialist analysis of a Bach-fugue-score
> > would tend to be structural, and that's how we wound up talking about
> > _structural_ analysis rather than some other form of analysis.
> 
> Sorry, I didn't mean to tar you with that brush.
> 
> 
> > How does one investigate by experiment and hypothesis, and without a priori
> > judgement, that a given piece, represented by a score, "is" a fugue --
> 
> We would not be investigating that the given piece "is" a
> fugue - we would observe how the score is constructed,
> attempt to define it and then decide what to name it.
> 
> But you seem to keep interjecting the idea of meaning into
> each of your discussions of this issue. Maybe I don't have
> a clue what you "mean" when you say "materialistic"
> approach to the score. Try to let me know.
> 
> -Eric


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