Klarinet Archive - Posting 000986.txt from 2001/10

From: Tony@-----.uk (Tony Pay)
Subj: Re: [kl] Yes We Have No Bananas vs. Beethoven 9
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 21:52:43 -0500

On Wed, 31 Oct 2001 16:26:00 -0600, sjh@-----.edu said:

> I suggest _A Generative Theory of Tonal Music_ by Fred Lerdahl and Ray
> Jackendoff, which attempts to deal with the same topics but filtered
> through Schenkerian theory, psychology, and linguistics. (The theory
> of rhythm is by itself worth the price of the book.)

You miss out the real reason why Ray Jackendoff has such insight.....

He plays the BASSETHORN!

(1960s narrow-bore Selmer that used to belong to Giora Feidman, he tells
me.)

Tony
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