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(For those who don't know the Monty Python sketch on woody and tinny words, go here.)
Blues is woody. Country/western is tinny.
"Caribou gorn" - one of my favorite moments from that sketch. They could perform abstract material and then mix it up with silly wordplay...//"Jazz" sounds tinny too, as does, naturally, "metal". "Folk" is woody?
km -- the names, well, maybe. I was referring to the music itself. :)(It's not the bass/treble either: I'd say Joni Mitchell is quite woody)
Ah. Yes, Bluegrass is tinny. But some country music is *very* woody. Honky-tonk is tinny. How about chamber music?//and so a new language for thinking about music is born.
"Caribou gorn" - one of my favorite moments from that sketch. They could perform abstract material and then mix it up with silly wordplay...
ReplyDelete//"Jazz" sounds tinny too, as does, naturally, "metal". "Folk" is woody?
km -- the names, well, maybe. I was referring to the music itself. :)
ReplyDelete(It's not the bass/treble either: I'd say Joni Mitchell is quite woody)
Ah.
ReplyDeleteYes, Bluegrass is tinny. But some country music is *very* woody. Honky-tonk is tinny. How about chamber music?
//and so a new language for thinking about music is born.