Robert Peters wrote:
>I think music does not have to be beautiful. It is art: art wants to
>express and sometimes it wants to express things which are not beautiful,
>things like anger, grief, ugliness, crime, jealousy etc. Then the music
>must not be beautiful.
We often employ the same word to qualify a Mahler's scherzo and a Mozart's
aria. The word "beauty" seems to be a little stretch, because its meaning
is too ample. Actually, I haven't ever heard "ugly" music...just bad
music.
Pablo Massa
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