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Ulvi Yurtsever sadi:
>Jocelyn Wang wrote:
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>>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.
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>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.
While I don't agree with Jocelyn, I do think I understand how her scenario
can work. There may be a point when a piece has "the right amount" of
emotion. Then also, any more emotion is still the right amount, but less
would be wrong. I guess, for Jocelyn, there can never be too much emotion
in music. But there can be too little.
~John~
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