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Show The Daily Utah Chronicle, Tuesday. December 5. Page Three 1978 Grad student ponders music appeal by VICKIE AMES education, and he plays jazz drum in his spare time. "Good jazz is solidly tonal with improvisation building on that base. The musical structure of good jazz can be compared to a bridge which has buttresses to hold up the design. You innately know you're going to make it across to the end because those guideposts are there," he said. Some erratic forms of jazz today have one butress in the middle, and drawbridges that raise on both sides. You start up in the air, you get to the basein the middle, but then you're left up in the air again at the end," he continued. Stone feels that much of today's music lacks intrinsic value because it is hapharzardly constructed. He does not think that shock value can compensate for lack of sophistication m anv art form. "In literature, closure is apparent as a set ot characters is introduced and logically interrelated to some conclusion. In the end, we know what happened to each one and no loose ends are left to frustrate the reader," Stone added. Although the University graduate hopes his theory will provide a new understanding of musical form for music theory students, he does not feel it is merely a vote for traditionalism. He believes it is a way of explaining why some music, literature and art appeal to our aesthetic senses and other samples of art forms are simply not intriguing. Chronicle staff "Most people look for aesthetic satisfaction, not emotional confrontation when listening to music," said Jeff Stone, 39, a graduate student completing thesis work for a master's degree in music. Stone, who has taught music theory at the University, believes that most people who haven't had exposure to various types of music don't find satisfaction in listening to atonal or unbalanced musical selections. "Most people want release and escape from music, and modern music sometimes confronts the listener rather than sooths him," Stone said. "The act of closure literally completing a theme that has been previously established is the fulfilling technique which puts the listener at rest and provides satisfaction. The opposite of this is music made up of nonrelated elements and which does not conform in rhythm, tone or form. It leaves the listener up in the air and actually creates tension by not completing the musical themes." Modern musical selections often lack the closure technique, resulting in fragmented or dangling themes and an unsatisfactory listening experience, according to Stone. Stone drives a cab in Salt Lake City to finance his Jeff Stone said that some modern music leaves the listener up in the air and actually creates tension by not completing the musical theme. ASUU PROGRAMS PRESENT A Rock & Roll Stomp StaGTomig . tf- mm v - few a-- W mm ? S cri TONIGHT Wmfi Jilt; ir. featuring llvo ontortalnmont Scott James llvo ontortalnmont Also Saf., Sun., tell s Dec. 9th Union Ballroom 8:30 pm $1.50 Mons through Docember Trolley Square 521 891 7 & -- ASUCJ CHALLENGE LECTURES SERIES PRESENTS if MANUAL From $Ea95 an ELECTRIC From $1 GENEOLOGY TYPEWRITERS GOOD SELECTION O O O O UNDERWOOD SMITH CORONA BROTHER OLIVETTI (895 LARGE CARRIAGE O FULLY ELECTRIC CORRECTABLE OFF KEYBOARD OCARRYING CASE O O SLC 700 531-022- 2 566-466- We lead the way NOON o THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1978 o EAST BALLROOM ONION BLDG. $23995 INCLUDED MID VALE EEOC8JS JOEL KURTZMAN AND JOHN WARNER So. State 6885 So. State 3 Provo 446 N. 200 W. 375-200- 0 0GDEN 621-890- 0 2959 Wash. Blvd. 0 A JU 0 n |
