In Bach, complex chords resolve to simple triads. In Jazz, complex chords often don't resolve. Hence, many complex chords move from a dissonant function to a consonant function such that there's not as much range in between consonant and dissonant. Emotionally, I just don't fill the same tug t...
Yeah, yeah, let it and all stupid entertainment exist, but don't hesitate to advocate rooting this ugly cynicism out of society, preferring media that helps us be better people, such as I believe Terrence Malick is doing.
Good life has a balance of repetition and variation. Good sex has a balance of repetition and variation. Bad life is too much to one extreme, same with sex. I think you and everyone agrees with this balance. The argument is therefore not for one side or the other, but for what is good balanc...
Yes, I think the melody was perhaps still there though barely recognizable in bebop. Then avant-garde jazz musicians eliminated it completely such as Charlie Mariano who said, "I don't want to hear pleasant music today. I want to hear screaming and hollering and kicking and biting. That's what t...
In Bach, complex chords resolve to simple triads. In Jazz, complex chords often don't resolve. Hence, many complex chords move from a dissonant function to a consonant function such that there's not as much range in between consonant and dissonant. Emotionally, I just don't fill the same tug t...