Re: anachronisms (was spam [Finale] very TAN (was: musical note values in OZ?))

2007-02-18 Thread Mark D Lew
On Feb 17, 2007, at 11:21 AM, John Howell wrote: Just started watching the movie Marie Antoinette. The illustration of wallpaper music constantly playing in the background is quite telling, but the rock parts of the score strike me as so totally anachronistic that they really turn me off.

Re: spam [Finale] very TAN (was: musical note values in OZ?)

2007-02-17 Thread Dick Hauser
On Feb 16, 2007, at 11:39 PM, Bruce K H Kau wrote: And, just to make a very roundabout attempt to bring this somewhat back to music/finale, is there any kind of term for musical spam (other than muzak(tm))? Many's the time I've been mulling over a tune/arrangement in my head while walking

Re: spam [Finale] very TAN (was: musical note values in OZ?)

2007-02-17 Thread John Howell
At 9:39 PM -1000 2/16/07, Bruce K H Kau wrote: SPAM comes from SPiced hAM. Much as we make fun of it (here in Hawai'i, too), it was a godsend for those who, during WWII, didn't really have any other major source of protein. In Hawai'i, that was just about everyone. That, according to legend,

Re: spam [Finale] very TAN (was: musical note values in OZ?)

2007-02-16 Thread Bruce K H Kau
SPAM comes from SPiced hAM. Much as we make fun of it (here in Hawai'i, too), it was a godsend for those who, during WWII, didn't really have any other major source of protein. In Hawai'i, that was just about everyone. That, according to legend, is where our taste for SPAM comes from. (Vienna