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I have written often of the common ground between musical creativity
and astronomical thinking - "I carry my thoughts about with me for a long time... before writing them down... once I have grasped a theme. I shall not forget it even years later. I change many things, discard others, and try again and again until I am satisfied; then, in my head... [the work] rises, it grows, I hear and see the image n front of me from every angle... and only the labor of writing it down remains... I turn my ideas into tones that resound, roar, and rage until at last they stand before me in the form of notes." Beethoven This intutive method of Beethoven in approaching material is almost tangential to the 'scientific method' which begins with building blocks of definitions and axioms and tries to rewind cosmological,geological and biological evolution back to their respective origins or building blocks.Beethoven did not build his compositions one note at a time,he extracted his works from a central theme and plugged away until it reaches its final form,while one note follows on from the next note,it displays little of the struggle between "harmony and invention" as another great composer (Vivaldi) expressed it. The 'scientific method',by its very nature puts its followers in an intellectual rut of evolutionary trajectories (biological.geological,cosmological),while once a genuine tool it has now evolved into a counter-productive ideology where it is no longer a tool but an end in itself .When Darwin looked at music he saw it as a tool for sexual selecton in keeping with his Victorian outlook on biological evolution,man being no different than any other animal (just as Newton based his mechanical view on structural and motive astronomy via the explosion of mechanical achievements in his era) but something has kicked in over the last few decades as the first generation to actually see our planet from space and recognise how incredible it is. There is some music that is almost designed for an image montage ,the following two are among them.There are many which I enjoy based on terrestrial inspiration like the following two but none of astronomy - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxqylxfYyQM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtE0Y...eature=related Maybe someday,our race will try to begin a recovery of sorts ,not for any competing ideology but to allow room for people who approach the topic in a different and well established way,it may not have existed in astronomy for centuries but it is there nonetheless.It is indeed the strife between harmony and invention. |
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