<html><head><base href="x-msg://91/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Proverbs 25:20: Whoever sings songs to a heavy heart is like one who takes off a garment on a cold day, and like vinegar on soda. </div><div><br></div><div>One gloss: These things are incongruous: certain music to a heavy heart, under-dressing in cold weather, vinegar and soda.<div><br></div><div>More broadly: "How shall we understand music? It is like an action upon someone, and it is like a component in a chemical reaction."</div><div><br></div><div><div>Some modern analogs in answering the question of how we might understand music: </div><div>- It is like a language</div><div>- It is like a thing which moves, in some cases seemingly of its own volition</div><div>- it is like a vessel which contains things, and which listeners and performers can move through (like an auditory curio cabinet), and/or which moves past listeners (like a moving curio cabinet)</div><div><br></div><div>A slightly different analytical question: How does music, or this music, work?</div><div>- It has *these* objective properties (and relationships among its features)</div><div>- It has *these* properties that we attribute to it (via metaphor and/or via its effects upon us) and that we treat as objective properties</div><div>- It has these effects upon listeners (and society), whence, the countless historical and current concerns about music's effects</div><div><br><div><br></div><div>Arnie Cox<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -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; font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -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; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -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; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -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; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Assoc. Prof. of Music Theory</div><div>Oberlin Conservatory of Music</div><div><br></div></div></span></div></span></div></span></span>
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<br><div><div>On Feb 14, 2013, at 7:48 AM, Michael Morse wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div class="hmmessage" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; "><div dir="ltr">Dear Colleagues,<div><br></div><div> Is there any consensus on what counts as the first piece of music analysis? What are the contenders?</div><div><br></div><div>Thnks,</div><div><br></div><div>Michael Morse</div><div><span style="font-size: 10pt; ">Cultural Studies</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 10pt; ">Trent University </span></div><div>Peterborough, Oshawa</div></div>_______________________________________________<br>Smt-talk mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Smt-talk@lists.societymusictheory.org">Smt-talk@lists.societymusictheory.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.societymusictheory.org/listinfo.cgi/smt-talk-societymusictheory.org">http://lists.societymusictheory.org/listinfo.cgi/smt-talk-societymusictheory.org</a><br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></div></div></body></html>