Kevin writes [about my def. of music]:

>I think this would work better without the word 'control.' You cannot
>control anything in the listener.  The ideas or emotions that you are
>trying to evoke will manifest themselves differently in every hearer.
>What some find depressing, others may find noble and uplifting for
>example.

I tend to agree with what you say.  But music by the masters was
deliberately structured for some reason.  I feel that when Beethoven wrote
what he thought was a sad passage, he felt most people would think it sad
as well, though that passage may remind someone of a very happy time in
their life.  But, hey, I'm flexible.  Did you have another word in mind.
(presuming that a definition is possible and necessary)

Bill Pirkle