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Edgar W Beach Jr <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 1 Apr 2004 22:36:37 -0600
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Karl Miller wrote:

>...  My experience of the use of the word in music is to suggest that
>intellectual music speaks mainly to the mind and not to the spirit.
>For me, Poulenc was a great intellect.  For me, his music speaks to both
>the mind and the spirit, but, it seems to me, that his craft (intellect)
>is likely to be lost on many, since the music will have, for many, and
>direct appeal to the spirit.

Yes thank you, it does help.  Yet it doesn't specifically address my
question which asked for an example.  I know now that "intellectual"
music, in quotes or not, appeals to the mind and that there is music
that appeals to the spirit (the soul maybe).  What I would like to know
(if it can be answered): Can you or anyone give me a specific example
of a piece of music that appeals solely to the mind?

Ed

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