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Lol this trash isn't even worth getting irritated by. If anything it's quite amusing when effortlessly twisted into satire.

Sigh... This reads like something out of the 60s or 70s, polemically. The power of incongruity -which seems to be the essay's main point of emphasis- does not automatically dismiss the power and indeed intelligence of other approaches to scoring a scene. I like incongruity if it somehow ends up being truly poetic; if it "reveals" something about a scene, and in so doing, amplifies it. Otherwise, it remains as shallow as any other approach executed badly. The author admits in his footnotes to have little knowledge of music. Which leads me to believe that he isn't equipped to properly distinguish between high and low quality of writing. And subsequently, a lot of musical layers would be lost on him. Oh well. I've read such essays and arguments before. They are Adorno's legacy, and as boring and uninstructive as I find them, I'm sure they make their authors feel educated, smart and validated. Good for them!

It's not the content that undoes his point, ultimately. It is his verbosity which I find nauseating. Is it not essentially the linguistic equivalent to what he's criticizing? Karol