https://padlet.com/jobst1998/lu095nl0nekw A Review of the Reviewer en-us 2017-12-02 20:45:46 UTC 2024-01-13 08:08:57 UTC hello@padlet.com jobst1998 https://padlet.com/jobst1998/lu095nl0nekw/wish/212563196 2017-12-03 05:47:57 UTC https://padlet.com/jobst1998/lu095nl0nekw/wish/212563196 jobst1998 https://padlet.com/jobst1998/lu095nl0nekw/wish/212563315 The great irony that Ben Ratliff, a man who's career has been to review material, is having his own material reviewed. I found Ratliff's book to be a solid tool for music appreciation. I find it to highlight points the vast majority of listeners don't pay attention to, or even know about, such as closeness, infinite inventory,  community and exclusivity, etc. It also provides a very wide and abundant range of music examples per each subject, giving the reader a good audio understanding. There are also parts of his speech I enjoy. He keeps it casual and fluid, versus following a rigid and formal wording and textbook definitions. I would, however, like to have seen different approaches in his work. While enjoy the formal feel, I feel as though he takes it into a poetic style and makes his definitions and explanations difficult to read at times. Staying along the lines of wordage, I also noticed he would spend a lot of time talking about specifics of example groups and songs, and they would seem to drag on. This was annoying at first, but then I began to shift my focus from a textbook view, to a reader view. He didn't write a textbook, so it's ok for him to go off script and talk about background details for a bit. 
All in all, I am glad to have read this book and been exposed to new concepts of music. Ratliff has brought very interesting topics to me that I had no experience in. ]]> 2017-12-03 05:52:27 UTC https://padlet.com/jobst1998/lu095nl0nekw/wish/212563315 jobst1998 https://padlet.com/jobst1998/lu095nl0nekw/wish/212565228 2017-12-03 06:51:30 UTC https://padlet.com/jobst1998/lu095nl0nekw/wish/212565228 jobst1998 https://padlet.com/jobst1998/lu095nl0nekw/wish/212566074 “We think of pieces of music from a distance as blocks of time, but can we hold more than a second or two in our minds? And are we—with all music, to some extent—waiting around for some pinpointed extraordinariness to happen? Not”
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