Friday, December 11, 2009

Expansion on the prior.

Regarding the article, Edward F. Kravitt, "Romanticism Today", The Musical Quarterly, (Spring 1992): pp. 93-109 Specifically, I'll focus on the negative. It was incredibly vague. It covers a lot of content, but doesn't draw any conclusions. It goes on for 16 pages, and doesn't go anywhere. There can be a lot of conclusions drawn, but instead the author chooses to not draw any. He goes on and on and doesn't make any actual decisions. It is essentially a cliffhanger with no sequel. The article creates (and dodges) questions, and doesn't draw any conclusions. Instead it cops out by deciding that there is no real way to define it. Whether or not a definite conclusion can be reached is irrelevant. A large group of small conclusions can still exist. Either way, the author didn't go this way, and decided not to conclude anything. It was merely frustrating.

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