I think I do. But Maudlin of the Well, I'd associate their music with Impressionism even more than with Symbolism (to bring some already established art-current definitions into the discussion). Impressionism in music is about a special importance of tone colour, texture, sound layering; this music has to be evocative first and foremost. I see a lot of impressionistic features in MotW. What do you think?Originally posted by Xtokalon:
All music by nature is symbolic, but some music is to the extent that it earns that extra credit of being "symbolic", in the sense of symbolism - of richly expressing some kind of definite and recurring human meanings in the music alone, music that is more than "tones" in a scale, and dynamics. You know what I mean?