At 4/1/2006 12:32 PM, Andrew Stiller wrote:
>Besides, by your definition many percussion ensemble works (notably
>_Ionisation_) are not music--unless you count the piano tone-clusters
>at the end as pitch. My own _A Descent into the Maelstrom_ contains no
>definite pitches. Is it not music? If not, what is it? Or are you
>saying it isn't even art?
Is it possible to two different groups to perform it and it sounds the same?
>The same questions apply to your dismissal of rap. If it isn't music,
>then it must be poetry, right? Or are you saying it isn't even art? If
>so, what's your definition of art?
I was in a church "speech chorus" in the late 50's.
They "performed" written words in rhythm and by somewhat arbitrary
groupings, high, middle and low.
Perhaps you are aware of the genre.
I would definitely not call it "music".
It was some kind of performance art.
Phil Daley < AutoDesk >
http://www.conknet.com/~p_daley
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