Is literature superior to music in terms of artistic merit?
Is literature superior to music in terms of artistic merit?
Henry Morris
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Jacob Hernandez
yes
Asher Ross
no, books are for nerds
Logan Lewis
The limitations that music sets on itself by nature cause it not to be able to express the same way books can do.
There is no answer.
Brayden Price
Yes, of course.
Austin Jackson
what a pseud
Dylan Martinez
Exactly. Close the thread
David Peterson
No. Sound is limitless. Musical appreciation is intrinsic to humanity. Diverse venues of appreciation (playing music, listening to music, seeing live performance, dancing). Music can access literature through lyrics.
Luis Phillips
No. Delete your post.
Benjamin Gray
yes
this is right
Liam Torres
Yes, but music is the superior art form.
Literacy is a prerequisite skill to appreciating literature. Anybody that can hear can appreciate fundamentally music concepts such as tone, rhythm, and harmony. There's a greater breadth of emotional character and depth without the need for traditional standards of composition and songwriting.
It's the same with film. There isn't really any such thing as experimental literature to push the medium forward in any particular direction.
You've got the right idea, but I think you misunderstood the question.
Owen White
t. nobel prize committee
Mason Fisher
>Sound is limitless
there is a finite amount of frequencies, while language evolves with society.
in a given future, there will be no more room for music experimentation while there will always exist experimentation on literature because of its nature.
David Hernandez
Oh shit ya I misunderstood
Ryan Baker
No two field recordings will be the same
Jonathan Gutierrez
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Elijah Miller
No to fields will be the same, sound recordings will be a poor representation.
Owen Edwards
lets see literature created the bible which has shaped society
what has music created again?
oh ya hip hop,rock and edm which is currently destroying society
lit > music
Brody Mitchell
No. Literature is limitless. Literal appreciation is intrinsic to humanity. Diverse venues of appreciation (writing literature, reading literature, studying literature). Literature can access music through lyrics.
>There isn't really any such thing as experimental literature to push the medium forward in any particular direction.
spoken word, poetry, stream of consciousness, language evolves.
Brandon Green
>spoken word, poetry, stream of consciousness, language evolves.
None of which are comparable equivalents to abstract concepts of sonics, such as atonality, microtonal music, and alternative scale structures.
Language has a tighter threshold for abstraction than sound.
Joseph Morgan
>None of which are comparable equivalents to abstract concepts of sonics, such as atonality, microtonal music, and alternative scale structures.
Hmm I wonder how you were to label those sounds
oh ya using language
kys brainlet
Evan Hughes
>None of which are comparable equivalents to abstract concepts of sonics, such as atonality, microtonal music, and alternative scale structures.
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>Language has a tighter threshold for abstraction than sound.
Nice prose you've got there! Now try to express the same with music.... oh you can't? poor boy
Jonathan Sanchez
>When Stravinsky wrote “The Rite of Spring,” he was so consumed by its lustful, primordial power that he mailed nude photos of himself to friends.
Ryan Cooper
this thread and its many variations are never not retarded
you literally don't have to choose
Tyler Hughes
what a degenerate
truly, "the rite of spring" was the beginning of the end for classical music
Parker Turner
based
Dominic Morales
>Nice prose you've got there! Now try to express the same with music
You want me to communicate using sound, correct?
Alright
vocaroo.com
>intrinsic properties of sensation carries equal expression to the term used to define it
pfffffffffft
Jack Gutierrez
haha what a faggot
Bentley Bennett
Not an argument.
Is music organized sound, yes or no?
Bentley Murphy
spbp
Dylan Ward
Is all organized sound art?
Jacob Robinson
Different mediums
Jackson Hernandez
Yes, it is, and we call that art music.
Define literature for me.
Oliver Martin
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Andrew Morgan
>he keeps using language to prove his point
brainlet pls go
Lincoln Long
Morse code is art?
Landon Bennett
Usage of language in an organized manner
Justin Jackson
>implying there's a point to be proven
>implying it's not true impartial of whether or not you personally believe it
I mean, we're engaging in a discussion.
Would you call this art?
Ethan Brooks
Then we're on the same page. :-)
Connor Gomez
Not him, but absolutely, yes.
Julian Young
There is no artistic merit in music.