Klarinet Archive - Posting 000416.txt from 2002/09

From: Richard Bush <rbushidioglot@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: "tooting your own horn"
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 15:59:20 -0400

Tim,

Rejoice. I think you might be the first
ever hperpolysyllabicsesquipedalianist
I've run across.

Tim Roberts wrote:

> On Thu, 19 Sep 2002 16:58:34 -0700, Bear Woodson <bearwoodson@-----.net> wrote:
>
>> OK, if "tooting your own horn" bothers you,
>>(which makes me very uncomfortable, feeling
>>compelled to speak for myself), then whom
>>would you suggest? There must be hundreds of
>>people on the Klarinet List.
>>
>
> More than a thousand, the last time Mark posted the statistics.
>
>
>>.... None of all those
>>musicians caught the fact on their own, that the
>>4th Movement is the ONLY time in all known
>>Music History, (according to a growing list of
>>Counterpoint Professors), that a Melody is Har-
>>monized by it's own Retrograde-Inversion a
>>Major 7th lower in Chromatic Modal (Non-12-
>>Tone) Harmony!
>>
>
> And this paragraph does not strike you as "tooting your own horn"?
> Complimentary or not, the term is accurate.
>
>
>>If my works are so mediocre, then ...
>>
>
> I haven't heard a single person on this list claim that your works are
> mediocre. In fact, I haven't heard anyone disparage your compositions at
> all. All the negative comments I've seen are entirely aimed at the verbose,
> pompous, jargonistic, and sesquipedalian nature of your posts.
>
> There's nothing particularly wrong with "tooting your own horn". We should
> all be our own biggest fans. However, after doing so, you should be neither
> surprised nor offended when someone identifies it as such.
>
>
> --
> - Tim Roberts, timr@-----.com
> Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

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