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7/8/2025, 6:57:52 PM
>ask classical music experts whether I should be enjoying music subjectively or trying to understand the author's intention
>they almost universally tell me understanding the author's intention is optional
>tell me all music stands alone and can be appreciated
>trying to get into debussy
>listening to proses lyriques
>meh, just seems like random sounds to me
>random moments of "that's nice, I guess" without understanding why
>is that what I'm supposed to be experiencing? the "that's nice, I guess?"
>is that what it means for music to stand alone? just listen to random crap and wait until your existing sensibilities are tickled by something? what if the tickling is an accident?
>get angry
>start researching the proses lyriques
>find out debussy was deliberately and straightforwardly applying a techno-fetishistic weirdo nonsense idea derived from a completely dumbass quack philosophy
>find out that the proses lyriques are like a painter rejecting formal techniques for painting because he has a hunch that they are arbitrary, but then in his quest to find a post-formalist painting style, being taken in for a year by a snake-oil salesman who convinces him that painting is only "good" insofar as it uses the color BROWN because BROWN is the MAGICAL UR-COLOR
>find out that debussy would have later spit on the proses lyriques as a failed experiment
>can now safely say, the proses lyriques Officially Suck Ass
>can justify this conclusion
>mfw thousands of retard plebs will listen to the proses lyriques today and go "Mmm.. Ah.. Ah yes, I rather quite like this, indeed.. Whilst.. Quite whilst.. Mm, yes, I'm quite whilst a fan of this.. This is quite post-tonal, not hidebound by formalism at all.. Ah yes.." as this complete shit garbage flawed experiment of post-formalist neo-techno-formalism accidentally produces something that sounds good by accident, because it accidentally sounds like a recognizable formalist chromatic piece of music, every 2.4 minutes on average
>they almost universally tell me understanding the author's intention is optional
>tell me all music stands alone and can be appreciated
>trying to get into debussy
>listening to proses lyriques
>meh, just seems like random sounds to me
>random moments of "that's nice, I guess" without understanding why
>is that what I'm supposed to be experiencing? the "that's nice, I guess?"
>is that what it means for music to stand alone? just listen to random crap and wait until your existing sensibilities are tickled by something? what if the tickling is an accident?
>get angry
>start researching the proses lyriques
>find out debussy was deliberately and straightforwardly applying a techno-fetishistic weirdo nonsense idea derived from a completely dumbass quack philosophy
>find out that the proses lyriques are like a painter rejecting formal techniques for painting because he has a hunch that they are arbitrary, but then in his quest to find a post-formalist painting style, being taken in for a year by a snake-oil salesman who convinces him that painting is only "good" insofar as it uses the color BROWN because BROWN is the MAGICAL UR-COLOR
>find out that debussy would have later spit on the proses lyriques as a failed experiment
>can now safely say, the proses lyriques Officially Suck Ass
>can justify this conclusion
>mfw thousands of retard plebs will listen to the proses lyriques today and go "Mmm.. Ah.. Ah yes, I rather quite like this, indeed.. Whilst.. Quite whilst.. Mm, yes, I'm quite whilst a fan of this.. This is quite post-tonal, not hidebound by formalism at all.. Ah yes.." as this complete shit garbage flawed experiment of post-formalist neo-techno-formalism accidentally produces something that sounds good by accident, because it accidentally sounds like a recognizable formalist chromatic piece of music, every 2.4 minutes on average
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