At 10:40 PM +1000 6/5/02, Kenneth Kuhlmann wrote: > > From: "Chuck Israels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> The three most important things in music are: rhythm, rhythm, and >> rhythm, in that order. >> > >Chuck: >Surely rhythm, melody and harmony are the eternal musical trinity >- allowing, of course, that the relative importance of each element >may vary between cultures? > >Is your emphasis on rhythm an over-compensation for the >relative rhythmic poverty of much of the popular canon of European >art music - cf. the Indian or African traditions or even the Eastern >Mediterannean, for instance? >
Dear Kenneth, Of course, statements like this are flippant and open to criticism for being superficial, but it has been my experience that if the timing's wrong, nothing you can do with the other elements will fix the problem - something like that. (And good rhythm will help to forgive shortcomings in melody and harmony.) At least it seems to work that way in my own listening and composing experience. Chuck -- Chuck Israels 230 North Garden Terrace Bellingham WA 98225-5836 (360) 671-3402 fax (360) 676-6055 [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
