Comments on: On the difficulty of discussing musical works http://thetarpit.org/2014/on-the-difficulty-of-discussing-musical-works "Now I feel like I know less about what that blog is about than I did before." Sun, 12 Apr 2026 21:21:17 +0000 http://thetarpit.org hourly 1 By: The Dark Side of the Moon « The Tar Pit http://thetarpit.org/2014/on-the-difficulty-of-discussing-musical-works#comment-4481 The Dark Side of the Moon « The Tar Pit Sat, 26 Aug 2023 16:24:27 +0000 http://wp.thetarpit.org/2014/on-the-difficulty-of-discussing-musical-works#comment-4481 [...] don't really do music reviews anymore, but this has been too much of an influence on me to simply ignore. Plus, Waters himself, [...] [...] don't really do music reviews anymore, but this has been too much of an influence on me to simply ignore. Plus, Waters himself, [...]

]]> By: Piano practice, the first month « The Tar Pit http://thetarpit.org/2014/on-the-difficulty-of-discussing-musical-works#comment-731 Piano practice, the first month « The Tar Pit Sun, 18 Jul 2021 22:05:50 +0000 http://wp.thetarpit.org/2014/on-the-difficulty-of-discussing-musical-works#comment-731 [...] be preceded by a hopefully not-that-long trip down memory lane. It's my own fault for putting this on hold for so long, so 'scuse me, [...] [...] be preceded by a hopefully not-that-long trip down memory lane. It's my own fault for putting this on hold for so long, so 'scuse me, [...]

]]> By: spyked http://thetarpit.org/2014/on-the-difficulty-of-discussing-musical-works#comment-412 spyked Sat, 10 Oct 2020 19:48:44 +0000 http://wp.thetarpit.org/2014/on-the-difficulty-of-discussing-musical-works#comment-412 I'll add here that English is not my mother-tongue, so ideas that come so easy to me in my native language are a bitch to articulate properly in this utterly frustrating language y'all like so much. By the way, notice how they don't say "utterly" or "afoot" anymore? Yet fo' sho', they're a The Simpsons. I'll add here that English is not my mother-tongue, so ideas that come so easy to me in my native language are a bitch to articulate properly in this utterly frustrating language y'all like so much.

By the way, notice how they don't say "utterly" or "afoot" anymore? Yet fo' sho', they're a The Simpsons.

]]> By: spyked http://thetarpit.org/2014/on-the-difficulty-of-discussing-musical-works#comment-410 spyked Sat, 10 Oct 2020 08:48:15 +0000 http://wp.thetarpit.org/2014/on-the-difficulty-of-discussing-musical-works#comment-410 Adlai, I appreciate the comment, but I'm known to have very little care for my readers' sensibilities. Besides that, I do happen to enjoy a whole variety of works, including (and sometimes especially) the <em>in</em>harmonic kind. Anyway, welcome and see you around! Adlai, I appreciate the comment, but I'm known to have very little care for my readers' sensibilities. Besides that, I do happen to enjoy a whole variety of works, including (and sometimes especially) the inharmonic kind.

Anyway, welcome and see you around!

]]> By: Adlai Chandrasekhar http://thetarpit.org/2014/on-the-difficulty-of-discussing-musical-works#comment-408 Adlai Chandrasekhar Fri, 09 Oct 2020 21:28:30 +0000 http://wp.thetarpit.org/2014/on-the-difficulty-of-discussing-musical-works#comment-408 Please consider the disambiguation between elidables[, such as those that I commonly designate with square brackets] and notes that, were you to write a text that flewd cross dozens of signatures, were best relegated to a separated footer; note that in the previous clause, I have intentionally abused both the described notation (by typing brackets square, where rounded match the specification), and abused the collided concepts stemming from the root 'note', both abuses done to illustrate anharmonics to my dear, deaf, retinal correspondents. I am not requesting that you adopt a similar division of semantics between brackets square and rounded, nor do I find the malignant silencing of inner process by the externally imposed precedent worthy of ... <i>not another fucking note!</i> Please consider the disambiguation between elidables[, such as those that I commonly designate with square brackets] and notes that, were you to write a text that flewd cross dozens of signatures, were best relegated to a separated footer; note that in the previous clause, I have intentionally abused both the described notation (by typing brackets square, where rounded match the specification), and abused the collided concepts stemming from the root 'note', both abuses done to illustrate anharmonics to my dear, deaf, retinal correspondents. I am not requesting that you adopt a similar division of semantics between brackets square and rounded, nor do I find the malignant silencing of inner process by the externally imposed precedent worthy of ... not another fucking note!

]]> By: On musical frames of reference « The Tar Pit http://thetarpit.org/2014/on-the-difficulty-of-discussing-musical-works#comment-336 On musical frames of reference « The Tar Pit Fri, 22 May 2020 14:28:43 +0000 http://wp.thetarpit.org/2014/on-the-difficulty-of-discussing-musical-works#comment-336 [...] guess this is as good a way as any to re-inaugurate the "music" category... since I've found a (perhaps very short) context to express some ideas on [...] [...] guess this is as good a way as any to re-inaugurate the "music" category... since I've found a (perhaps very short) context to express some ideas on [...]

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