Re: SCWC 60 results

Peter T. Daniels:

On Oct 2, 11:45 pm, "Mr. Terrier" <pretty_g...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
(merciful snip)

Peter T. Daniels:



and I know that you know that and are just
trying to maintain appearances in an effort to obfuscate the fact that
you
used a really fancy word - "durchkomponiert" - only you misinterpreted it
as
meaning "with continuous music", rather than "through-composed" which is
quite possibly, as it is for many non-musicians, a distinction you don't
(or
didn't) have. I have made the distinction between the two concepts
abundantly clear yet you rattle on about only having been to a concert
performance of JCS, without, at any point, acknowledging your original
faux
pas. Do you wonder why you're involved in so many of the ongoing disputes
on
this forum? It's the inability to say "thanks for setting me straight",
"oops", "my bad", "d'oh!"...
</rant>

Or, just perhaps, most of the rpc participants come from a different
part of the world that uses the English language in a way somewhat
different from the way it is used by the majority of English-speakers,
i.e., Americans.

And still you persist. Tell me, Peter, what does "durchkomponiert" mean?

Not strophic, not repetitious. No breaks between the stanzas.

And *Still* you persist. The first two parts of your definition are
accurate. Third bit is something you made up in a (one would hope)
last-ditch effort to salvage some justification for using "durchkomponiert"
wrongly. Only thing is it's wrong: for a start, there _are_ no stanzas in
non-strophic music, neither are there "stanzas" in purely instrumental
music, to which "durchkomponiert" can apply. If, however somebody writes
some through-composed music to, say, a poem, the verses of the poem could be
separated by interludes of purely instrumental music, without it having any
effect on the fact that the music is through-composed. There is just *no*
overlap between "durchkomponiert" and "continuous" in the sense that an
opera's being continuous music - _everything_ is sung - distinguishes it
from a 'musical' in which there are whole sections with no music at all.
None.

But then, I'm repeating myself. I'd already made this distinction abundantly
clear earlier in the thread. I don't know you personally, it may be that
you're slow to grasp some concepts. I suspect, however, that you're easily
bright enough to grasp the distinction and it's just your total
unwillingness to admit your gaffe, that leads us on and on and...

Somewhere in your education I suspect you learnt it's 'bad' or 'wrong' to
make a mistake; that people will think less of you if you make one. Trust
me: there are far more effective ways of having people lose all respect for
you than the _making_ of a mistake.
--
Steve = : ^ |

I see why you took the name "Terrier."

And I (all of us, I'm sure) see why you changed the subject.
--
Steve = : ^ )

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