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Originally Posted by mixedmedia
No one expects that poetry should be able to be set to music [...]
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You mean like a ballad?
I guess what we're trying to prove (if anything) is that songs don't need to be all about the music. Much pop music, in my view, looks at words as secondary, rather than as important as the music that goes along with them. The best songs (again in my view) are those that are as lyrically strong (or stronger) as they are musically. A "song," traditionally, refers to a musical composition with voice. Musically, you have instrumentation that focuses on voice, but what that voice manifests doesn't have to be poetically (referring to "meaning and movement") vapid.
Good contribution, btw.
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Last edited by Baraka_Guru; 12-13-2008 at 04:11 PM..
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