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Old May 11th 08, 05:44 PM posted to uk.sci.astronomy
oriel36[_2_]
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Default Astronomy and music

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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