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find all the diphthongs!



The long-distance phone companies have always made a lot of money out of separated young lovers who spend hours mostly sighing back and forth between Pittsburgh and Bahrain. To an eavesdropper, not much is happening. But to the lovers -- enormous amounts of very important information are being exchanged.
 
I think good instrumental music is that kind of a communications channel: Deeply personal, but deeply important information, even if it's "fuzzy" information about the heart and glands that you can't put into words very well -- deep limbic communication.
 
Is it "about" something? I don't think I'm tainted with anyone's formal theory; I think I've just naturally always responded to music as if it were a big bag of important emotional, æsthetic, even intellectual information.
 
Debussy's putting the titles at the end of the score makes a lot of sense -- a snappy title can "prejudice the jury," force it towards the composer's desired paths.
 
Is this a synæsthesia thing? Two groups of people listening to the same music, one group hears just the notes and integrates them into pleasure; the others perceive an explosion of complex and unexpected information.
 
Bob
 
P.S. God I just love diphthongs!
 
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