<div dir="ltr"><div>As far as I am concerned, "modern" as apply to arts just has one spare letter - it should only have four.</div><div>Cheers<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, 29 Oct 2018 at 00:21, Ron L'Herault <<a href="mailto:lherault@verizon.net">lherault@verizon.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="m_-1447244209902047389WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Don’t know if it is for the same reason but I’m with you. Modern music/jazz leaves me cold. I can’t connect with it.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Ron L<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #b5c4df 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Dan Spink [mailto:<a href="mailto:danspink@dceo.rutgers.edu" target="_blank">danspink@dceo.rutgers.edu</a>] <br><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, October 28, 2018 11:22 AM<br><b>To:</b> Ron<br><b>Cc:</b> Dixieland Jazz Mailing List<br><b>Subject:</b> [Dixielandjazz] A Simple Way To Define Our Kind Of Music<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal">I have never authored an original email to this list. I hope your readers find this interesting. All of the years I've played piano in different bands I've noticed that the music I truly love can be easily categorized harmonically and rhythmically--but I've never seen anyone comment on this idea. Maybe the list mates have some opinions:<u></u><u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">The music I love I call "emotional" music which I contrast with "intellectual" music. The first is harmonically centered on triads and sevenths with a clearly "felt" two-beat or four beat. This includes Dixieland, folk, church hymns, Rock, and even Classical. The opposite I see as dissonance focus and a steady but not easily felt four beat. I was playing in the Fifties when I sensed the split in "Jazz". I do not wish to offend anyone, but I do not like Bebop or what could be called "Modern Jazz" with so many complex, dissonant chords I can't tell them apart sometimes. <u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">My bias may not be appreciated but I respect musical skill in any genre.<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Any comments from anyone?<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Dan Spink<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> <br clear="all"><u></u><u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><p class="MsoNormal">-- <u></u><u></u></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div></div></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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