Some music is made to be beautiful to listen to, some to be beautiful to sing or play. Dance can be optimized for observer or performer.
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People say Chopin is beauty-of-performance-optimized but I'm not a good enough piano player to know. Contra > ballet though
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@sarahdoingthing Like James Rhodes on the Goldberg Variations they “do things to me that only top-grade pharmaceuticals can achieve” - 6 more replies
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@sarahdoingthing Makes me wonder if a lot of modern pop music is optimised for performance and that's why I don't get it.> -
@sarahdoingthing <I vaguely get the impression that the people who like Taylor Swift enjoy singing along more than I do to, say, Bob Dylan. - 4 more replies
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@sarahdoingthing Except in math, chess and the like. Where observers of deep moves are necessarily performers. -
@LogicalAnalysis good analogy
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@sarahdoingthing Sometimes not. New Order was tapped to perform "Blue Monday" on Top of the Pops. Their condition was that they do it live. - 7 more replies
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