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PURPOSES_OF_MUSIC

                                                      Feb  3, 2001
                                             Revised: Dec 17, 2002
                                                 Add: Dec 11, 2005


There are many
purposes of music,
many functions it
performs for
different people:

   entertainment

   meditation

   religious ritual

   military ceremony

   dance - night club                   DANCE

   dance - performance

     ballet
     modern
     ethnic
     Broadway
     cabaret

   one-ups-manship

   illumination (art?)

   emblems of cultural identity

   ear lids: to drown out distractions

   the default accompaniment to driving

   soundtrack: to enhance/signal the dramatic

   life soundtrack: to pose as if in a film

   communications signal
      a melody can have an assigned denotative meaning

       military  - 'beat to quarters"
       community - church bells: 'wedding', 'passing'...      NINE_TAYLORS


Very few musicians make an
effort at fulfilling more
than a few of these purposes.

   A music that rejects all barriers, all rules,
   A music that tries to embrace all techniques,
   all traditions, that uses elements from all
   musical cultures will inevitably be limited
   to a single purpose:

       It becomes an object of
       intellectual interest.


                       A music of everything
                       can not be a music
                       of everyone.



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