"Mahler's music is better than it sounds" (Grice, apres William Nye)

From wiki:

"Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
Actually by Bill Nye, possibly confused due to Twain quoting Nye in More tramps abroad, 1897."



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i. Mahler's music is better than it sounds.

Cfr. Grice:

"She sang "Home Sweet Home".
"Her rendition matched the score admirably" (adapted from "Logic and Conversation").

There is something which IS Mahler's music ("The song of the earth") that IS *NOT* any of its renditions, even the beloved one by Grice, by Kathleen Ferrier.

So Nye makes perfect sense.

Joan Sutherland, whose career I have studied, used to say that rehearsing was very easy for her -- "People don't realise but a lot of rehearsing can be carried on mentally."

I agree! And I'm a Monist!