Klarinet Archive - Posting 000395.txt from 2002/07

From: "Daniluk, Bill" <bdaniluk@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] FW: [kl] Orca song
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 17:18:01 -0400

Morse Code is "sound ordered in time"; I wouldn't want to argue that it is
music.
BD

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From: Kent Krive [mailto:k.krive@-----.net]
Subject: Re: [kl] Orca song

Try applying Stravinsky's definition of music: "Music is sound ordered in
time." According to it, animal sounds could be said to be music only if the
animals were consciously meting out their respective utterings to conform to
a "frame" or matrix of time. What little I've heard of rap seems
rudimentarily "ordered in time," and is, therefore, music.

Kent

----- Original Message -----
From: "William Wright" <w8wright@-----.net>
Subject: Re: [kl] Orca song

> In regard to "what is music?" --- because it's not clear that whale or
> dolphin or bird song should be thought of as a form of music --- just
> as it's not clear that 'rap' is a form of music --- the Marvin Minsky
> article:
> http://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/papers/Laske.Interview.Music.txt
>
> says:
>
> The term "music" expresses rather [than harmonic analysis, etc] an
> acceptance on the side of society that something is o.k.
>
> Statements of this sort blur any clearcut dividing line between music
> and language and other forms of aural communication.
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