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Ulvi Yurtsever <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 24 Jun 1999 00:55:46 +0000
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Jocelyn Wang wrote:

>It is possible for a piece of music to have either insufficient emotion,
>or exactly the right amount, but impossible for it to have too much.

There is a problem with this:  take a piece of music which has exactly the
right amount of emotion, and double the emotion (by, say, repeating every
emotional passage twice).  Now you have a piece which has twice as much
emotion as the exactly right amount.

Ulvi Yurtsever
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