Klarinet Archive - Posting 000398.txt from 2002/07

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Orca song
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 18:47:43 -0400

At 05:17 PM 7/17/2002 -0400, Kent Krive wrote:
>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.

Actually, rap is WELL ordered in time. Rhythm is practically its ONLY
significant element. It is the rappers' conception of what constitutes
"sound" that is shaky!

Bill Hausmann bhausmann1@-----.net
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Essexville, MI 48732 ICQ UIN 4862265

If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is TOO LOUD!

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