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Agenbite of Inwit, whole no. 4, Spring 1944
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Agenbite of Inwit -- Spring, 1944 -- Page Fifteen ********************************** music has not been able to achieve that clarity. The most clear of the musical impressions today achieve barely more than the clarity of a wild cubist printing, which the common man does not accept, and which even art connoiseurs admit is barely more than a confused jumbled portrayal of a real thing. This type of musical impression does not satisfy me; I can do without it. JBM: Trapped! We will pass over your absurd delusion that the Bach Toccata and Fugue in D Minor is modern music -- I asked that to see if you knew -- to dwell upon your comment that in hearing this piece you failed to derive any impression from it. May I ask what, in your opinion, is music from which you could derive an impression? DAW: The Bach piece differs little in maturity from 99% of serious compositions written since his death. I admit in incapability to analise the most recent musical offerings, due to not having heard them as yet. I refer to the widely-acclaimed "Mairzy Doatsy". Music, in my opinion, succeeded in obtaining definite impression in but one or two types. Types ignored by the critic of taste. Firstly, the military march, some of which achieve their point of making the hearer wish to walk in unison; secondly, certain rhythmically-paced pieces, mainly savage, which, by means of percussion instruments, cause the heart to beat faster, thereby arousing the hearer to martial frenzy in the case of war-dances, or just plain frenzy, in the case of Ravel's "Bolero". But these are obviously elementary. We have failed to produce anything so clear in musical composition pertaining to other emotions. It is my opinion that music should be sent back to the laboratory, there to be re-worked from completely new beginnings, primarily, with the aid of psychologists, biologists, and mathematics, thereby to determine accurately what vibrational sequences and patterns do actually reproduce the various emotions of the human being as well as to determine whether visual impressions, free of emotional connotations, can also be reproduced musically. In this work, the thousand-fold musical masterpieces of today will prove to be but a jumble of meaningless cacophony, interspersed with tiny accidental threads of true vibrational meaning. The musical works of today are similar to the alchemist's notes of the Middle Ages; a shred of fact hopelessly confused amidst a mass of worthless, irrelevant, and misleading mumbo-jumbo. CONCLUSION: Music has failed to achieve any worthwhile object. DAW Wollheim is just rationalizing his own inadequacies. In order to justify himself, he has to prove that the rest of the world is deluded. Down with him! FSNY ********************************** TRIGGER-TALK AT GREEN GUNA or Buck Wollheim Rides Tonight Chapter Three: We Gotta Hang Somebody! R.I.P. Boothill Solitaire Johnny Skull Baumgardt Short-Grass Gillespie Sheep-Dip Cohen Honest Dan Burford One-Beer Kornbluth Deputy Robbins Applejack Kyle Spineless Sam Dogface Damon Seven-Year Willie Jimmy the Bull
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Agenbite of Inwit -- Spring, 1944 -- Page Fifteen ********************************** music has not been able to achieve that clarity. The most clear of the musical impressions today achieve barely more than the clarity of a wild cubist printing, which the common man does not accept, and which even art connoiseurs admit is barely more than a confused jumbled portrayal of a real thing. This type of musical impression does not satisfy me; I can do without it. JBM: Trapped! We will pass over your absurd delusion that the Bach Toccata and Fugue in D Minor is modern music -- I asked that to see if you knew -- to dwell upon your comment that in hearing this piece you failed to derive any impression from it. May I ask what, in your opinion, is music from which you could derive an impression? DAW: The Bach piece differs little in maturity from 99% of serious compositions written since his death. I admit in incapability to analise the most recent musical offerings, due to not having heard them as yet. I refer to the widely-acclaimed "Mairzy Doatsy". Music, in my opinion, succeeded in obtaining definite impression in but one or two types. Types ignored by the critic of taste. Firstly, the military march, some of which achieve their point of making the hearer wish to walk in unison; secondly, certain rhythmically-paced pieces, mainly savage, which, by means of percussion instruments, cause the heart to beat faster, thereby arousing the hearer to martial frenzy in the case of war-dances, or just plain frenzy, in the case of Ravel's "Bolero". But these are obviously elementary. We have failed to produce anything so clear in musical composition pertaining to other emotions. It is my opinion that music should be sent back to the laboratory, there to be re-worked from completely new beginnings, primarily, with the aid of psychologists, biologists, and mathematics, thereby to determine accurately what vibrational sequences and patterns do actually reproduce the various emotions of the human being as well as to determine whether visual impressions, free of emotional connotations, can also be reproduced musically. In this work, the thousand-fold musical masterpieces of today will prove to be but a jumble of meaningless cacophony, interspersed with tiny accidental threads of true vibrational meaning. The musical works of today are similar to the alchemist's notes of the Middle Ages; a shred of fact hopelessly confused amidst a mass of worthless, irrelevant, and misleading mumbo-jumbo. CONCLUSION: Music has failed to achieve any worthwhile object. DAW Wollheim is just rationalizing his own inadequacies. In order to justify himself, he has to prove that the rest of the world is deluded. Down with him! FSNY ********************************** TRIGGER-TALK AT GREEN GUNA or Buck Wollheim Rides Tonight Chapter Three: We Gotta Hang Somebody! R.I.P. Boothill Solitaire Johnny Skull Baumgardt Short-Grass Gillespie Sheep-Dip Cohen Honest Dan Burford One-Beer Kornbluth Deputy Robbins Applejack Kyle Spineless Sam Dogface Damon Seven-Year Willie Jimmy the Bull
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