Orfeo ...Sextet ...dancing about architecture.

[Mark Kohut]

How about this aphorism: all art aspires to the condition of music. 

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> On Oct 4, 2014, at 10:01 AM, alice malice <alicewmalice at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Writing about music," the saying goes, "is like dancing about
> architecture." If it's meant to dissuade, the warning has gone
> unheeded: Over the years, a number of novels about music have
> ingeniously translated this notoriously languageless experience into
> English. In rock novels or the burgeoning genre of lit-hop, most of
> the action happens to non-musicians—the listeners populating record
> stores, high schools, the streets. The primary focus of the jazz
> novel, however, is the musicians themselves. No other form pays as
> much attention to the players, their instruments, and the music as it
> is being performed. The musicians found in the following books—a
> trumpeter, a pianist, a drummer, a saxophonist, a bassist, and a
> vocalist—form a sort of sextet. Each solos on themes endemic to the
> genre: racism and heroism, virtuosic talent and ruined ambition. Like
> a set of jazz standards, the tune can be familiar; the execution
> rarely is.
> 
> http://www.bookforum.com/booklist/13699
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