On 4 Apr 2006 at 4:38, Robert C L Watson wrote: [Darcy, unattributed, saying something with which I wholeheartedly agree:] > > What a breathtakingly ignorant statement. > > OOh! rap is great high art eh?
Some of might be, some of it clearly isn't. Just like all genres of music. But of course, the current discussion was not over whether rap is "high art" (there's a thicket of huge problems involved with *that* term by itself!), but over whether or not it is music. I wouldn't call the parlando examples from the Music Man or G&S "high art," either. But you have stated that there's something musically completely different about the makeup of those parlando "songs" (which you recognize as music) and rap. I can't see any significant difference at all in terms of the musical materials being used. -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
