Re: Ambiguous music

[Doug Alan <nessus@athena.mit.edu>]

Yes, ambiguity can be a truly wonderful artistic tool.  It allows one
work to mean many things.  This is one of the reasons why I think that
it is often worthwhile to discuss interpretations of art even if the
artist says they intended something else.  The artist may very well
have had one specific interpretation in mind when they created the
work, but they may have also made it somewhat ambiguous so that the
emotion in the work can stretch onto the framework in other people's
minds.

|>oug