The Devils Work

[MrGongGong]

Syncopation ?

https://mobile.twitter.com/northworstsem/status/1226518189850361856

apparently

[ahinton]

Syncopation ?

https://mobile.twitter.com/northworstsem/status/1226518189850361856

apparently

You couldn't make it up, could you?!...

[LeMartinPecheur]

Syncopation ?

https://mobile.twitter.com/northworstsem/status/1226518189850361856

apparently

Didn't Scott Joplin take a more elitist view?

[LMcD]

Syncopation ?

https://mobile.twitter.com/northworstsem/status/1226518189850361856

apparently

'The Devils Work'. Nice to know that haven't downed tools.

[Serial_Apologist]

I just KNEW something went fundamentally wrong when Ska was invented.....

[rauschwerk]

A colleague of mine was once informed in all seriousness that it's ok to listen to music as long as you don't move any part of your body in time with it. And that reminds me of this:

"Dancing is for the most part attended with many amorous smiles, wanton compliments, unchaste kisses, scurrilous songs and sonnets, effeminate music, lust-provoking attire, ridiculous love pranks, all of which savour only of sensuality, of raging fleshly lusts. Therefore it is wholly to be abandoned of all good Christians. Dancing serves no necessary use, no profitable, laudable or pious end at all. It is used only from the inbred pravity, vanity, wantoness, incontinency, pride, profaneness or madness of men's depraved natures. Therefore it must needs be unlawful unto Christians. The way to Heaven is too steep, too narrow for men to dance in and keep revel rout. No way is large or smooth enough for capering roisters, for jumping, skipping, dancing dames but that broad, beaten, pleasant road that leads to Hell. The gate of Heaven is too narrow for whole rounds, whole troupes of dancers to march in together." (William Prynne, 1632)

[MrGongGong]

I'm quite interested in prohibitions against music
It seems when one digs a bit it's not the "sonic art" that is the problem
but the effects that some music has on people

I've had some very interesting conversations with folks about what constitutes "forbidden" music

not forgetting that change ringing sounds like music to me but some will insist that it's something else

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

So that's Mozart down the plughole.

[ahinton]

A colleague of mine was once informed in all seriousness that it's ok to listen to music as long as you don't move any part of your body in time with it.

So the end of the road for conductors, then?...

[Bryn]

So the end of the road for conductors, then?...

Not at all. Surely, conductors move in advance of the music, even if only marginally?

[oddoneout]

A colleague of mine was once informed in all seriousness that it's ok to listen to music as long as you don't move any part of your body in time with it. And that reminds me of this:

"Dancing is for the most part attended with many amorous smiles, wanton compliments, unchaste kisses, scurrilous songs and sonnets, effeminate music, lust-provoking attire, ridiculous love pranks, all of which savour only of sensuality, of raging fleshly lusts. Therefore it is wholly to be abandoned of all good Christians. Dancing serves no necessary use, no profitable, laudable or pious end at all. It is used only from the inbred pravity, vanity, wantoness, incontinency, pride, profaneness or madness of men's depraved natures. Therefore it must needs be unlawful unto Christians. The way to Heaven is too steep, too narrow for men to dance in and keep revel rout. No way is large or smooth enough for capering roisters, for jumping, skipping, dancing dames but that broad, beaten, pleasant road that leads to Hell. The gate of Heaven is too narrow for whole rounds, whole troupes of dancers to march in together." (William Prynne, 1632)

'Pravity' - a word that might come in handy, I'll make a note of it.

[LMcD]

So the end of the road for conductors, then?...

We've had driver-only buses for years.