I think you are giving music notation way more credit than it deserves. I'm
probably saying this on the wrong board, but it'd really, as others said, be
a shame to have such a constraining definition of what music is. So much
20th century music that is very much music almost defies notation. I'm not
sure you'd be happy to exclude music that is difficult to fairly reproduce
with other performers based on notation. Seems a little over the top.

-Scot Hanna-Weir

On 4/7/06 12:30 PM, "Phil Daley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 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.

_______________________________________________
Finale mailing list
[email protected]
http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Reply via email to