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Old 07-08-2021, 03:35 PM   #933 (permalink)
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It's not objectivity because there's no fact being violated if someone felt otherwise.
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Strictly speaking that's still not totally objective probably, it's due to a shared cultural background. But that's what I mean by an opinion which people agree on to such an extent that you can treat is as kind of objective in a hand-wavy way.
Yeah that's why I said in a certain sense. Certain notes and chords and arrangements tend to produce certain emotional responses that, while they are not universal or uniform, if deployed effectively by artists with good instincts can make them some kind of objectively more effective at what they're trying.to accomplish than less intuitive artists trying to accomplish the same thing.

That's a far cry from what homeboy is talking about but it's not nothing.
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