Donald Satz <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>In the larger picture, rules are made to be broken since they are
>originated by humans.  If all the so-called rules of music composition
>were adhered to, music would stagnate and the creative process would die
>on the vine.

It depends on the rule we're talking about.  If you write - as particularly
idiotic advanced composer of my acquaintance once did - a chamber piece
which includes an acoustic guitar, the rule which says that you will have
a bloody hard time balancing guitar & double bass is only sanely broken
if your name is PDQ Bach.  Similarly, the rule which states that the line
which looks crash-bang-wallop on the score might just go plod-plod-plod
in front of an audience is equally uncompromisingly.  For these &
related reasons, i've always thought that you can talk objectively about
technically bad music (in the sense that it fails to achieve aesthetic
effects due to technical incompetance - not in the sense of RVW's anecdote
about parallel sevenths); but beyond a certain point, you can't talk
objectively about good music.

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