III.1 The Axis of Semiotics III.1.1 (F Sept 29) Generalities about Signs and Music
Eduard Hanslick: Vom Musikalisch Schönen (About the Musically Beautiful) Der Inhalt der Musik sind tönend bewegte Formen. (The content of music are sounding(ly) moved forms. The content of music are forms that are moved in a sounding way. ...forms animated through sound.) Friedrich Nietzsche: Ohne Musik wäre das Leben ein Irrtum. (Without music life would be a mistake.) Arnold Schönberg: Musik soll nicht schmücken, sie soll wahr sein. (Music should not ornament, it should be true.) Ludwig van Beethoven: Musik ist höhere Offenbarung als alle Weisheit und Philosophie. (Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.) Duke Ellington/Irving Mills: It Don’t Mean a Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing) Frank Zappa: Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.
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phrases sentence: period, antecedent/consequent classical developmental sentence
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