At 4/7/2006 01:07 PM, Christopher Smith wrote: >But what does our interest in notating it have to do with anything? I >wrote it down because I had to, like a lot of what I do, not because I >was particularly interested in it. The fact that is WAS notatable is >not germane to any real definition of music, either. I have transcribed >lots of things that were not music, like speeches and poems; the mere >fact that I was able to notate them does not make them music.
Speeches and poems are performance art, they are NOT music. And, I cannot imagine that you were able to notate them as exactly reproducible with pitches.
My point has been, all along, that, if you cannot notate a part to be fairly reproducible with other performers, it is NOT music.
It is all some kind of performance art. And rap perfectly fits that description. Phil Daley < AutoDesk > http://www.conknet.com/~p_daley _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
