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Originally Posted by Nirvana69
It just makes me want to say "Oh really? Well do you like movies? Mhm, mhm, mhm. What are some movies you don't like? Oh, you don't like that? Okay. Well, have you bought the DVD, watched all the extra footage, watched interviews with the cast and crew, re-watched the movie about a dozen times, and read through the Wikipedia and IMDB articles? Oh, you haven't? What's this I hear, oh yeah...it's a double standard."
This can be applied to anything really. Cars, fashion, books, paintings, etc. Anything that someone considers art really. Do you ever just like things? Do you honeslty have to research everything in exhaustive detail before you form an opinion on *anything*? I seriously, seriously doubt it. I think people like to insult each other's musical taste in particular because afterall, this *is* a music forum and a lot of people here are *very* passionate about it but I bet you'd be pretty irked if I insulted your taste in movies/books/etc. as "ignorant" because you didn't spend the same care and attention into that you do music (And judging from the movies thread, a lot of YCers don't have very good taste in movies in my opinion.  )
Anyway, I apologize if this isn't what you're saying but what I *think* you're saying just threw me into semi-rant mode. Feel free to clarify. |
Sorry, but a professional and a responsible composer MUST research everything and anything, even if they don't like it. Education has nothing to do with taste.
If you were a film maker, you WOULD BE EXPECTED to be so thorough in your research as the example you mentioned there, because it's what you're supposed to do. IF you don't do that, you'll be clearly only limiting yourself. Education, again, has priority over taste.
I think the problem arises from the fact I expect anyone who is serious about composition to behave in a serious manner and actually tackle the subject without idiotic biases when it comes to the study of music altogether. I don't care if you don't like Jazz, or clusters, or 40s experimentalism, or baroque music, you HAVE to know about these topics enough to write goddamn essays on each of them. Not only that, but you have to know the history of each of those things, consequences, theory and application of each of those styles and aesthetics!
If not, then well, let's establish how serious you take your music studies and I won't expect so much from you.