M&D 172

[frewsie at interport.net]

Slight spoiler follows . . .






















Brian D. McCary writes:

>Thanks to everybody for their input on the question about the emotional
>impications of scales.  I'm gonna summerize, and then consider the question
>more or less spent.  First, frewsie's point that scales are probably value
>free and that emotional content would be socially learned (and the
>suggestion that Tom is ribbing the pseudo-scientific) is worth noting,
>but it sort of precludes debate, and I can't waste enough of my time or
>yours ruminating on it, so I will acknowledge it and move on.  davemarc's
>post from Paul Siskind was also fascinating.


<big snip>

 Sorry
>to go on at length about such a tangential topic, but, hey, that's why
>we are all here, right?
>


I agree. Questioning whether or not we can define the emotional content of
musical scales is not half as interesting as attempting to do so. Nice
work.

--Susie Frank