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<div><font style="background-color: transparent;">One expression I frequently use in classes is: "I don't believe in useless knowledge; I only believe there are people who don't know how to use knowledge." </font></div>
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From: Olli Väisälä <ovaisala@siba.fi><br>
To: smt-talk@lists.societymusictheory.org <Smt-talk@lists.societymusictheory.org><br>
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Subject: Re: [Smt-talk] the impossibility of listening<br>
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<div>Daniel Roca wrote</div>
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<div>El 02/11/2012, a las 10:04, Nicolas Meeùs escribió:</div>
<br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span style="font:/normal Helvetica; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; border-collapse: separate; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="Apple-style-span">I used to teach that analysis is about what is not heard, but that any analysis is wrong that can't be heard. My students derided me for these contradictory statements. What I meant, however, is that analysis is about helping to hear what was not heard at first.<br>
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At a more elementary level, I think that analysis is also about helping to understand what is heard, even at first. I often find that my students' ears (their acoustic brain, so to speak) do a better job than their verbal brain.
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<div>I tell my students that both purposes of analysis are fundamentally important: (1) becoming conscious of aspects of music that affect perception; (2) enhancing one's perception by becoming conscious of further aspects.</div>
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<div>A point of comparison is offered by studying grammar or syntax of language. With one's native language, the purpose of such study corresponds to (1), with a foreign language, it often correspond to (2). In different kinds of music, there can be a lot of grey area somewhere between (1) and (2).</div>
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<div>Olli Väisälä</div>
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