"World Music" sounds all the same...
On 16.07.19 15:07, Stephen Stubbs wrote:
On 7/15/2019 9:35 AM, howard posner wrote:
On 13.07.19 19:30, John Mardinly wrote:
My teenage daughter says all classical music sounds the same. I tell
her all pop music sounds the same. Who is right?
Ooh, easy
On 7/15/2019 9:35 AM, howard posner wrote:
On 13.07.19 19:30, John Mardinly wrote:
My teenage daughter says all classical music sounds the same. I tell
her all pop music sounds the same. Who is right?
Ooh, easy one:
You’re both wrong. You’re both making sweeping categorical statements
Sounds the same ...
Could be said of any music genre that somebody is not familiar with
or doesn't appreciate.
I have friends in a wonderful old-time fiddle/bluegrass group from
Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN called "The Buffalo Gals".
In one of their numbers they start playing "Skip To My Lou",
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Subject: [LUTE] Re: All music (was Siena Manuscript No. 17 - Ricercar)
Don't anyone dare calling a 500 bar passomezzo "filler" music ... It was
more properly called "staircase" music (passomezzo in Italian means:
"mind your step"). It took a long time to go dow
From Trecani:
passam??o (o passem??o) s. m. [alterazione di pass???e mezzo, cio?? ??un passo
e mezzo passo??].
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From: Alain Veylit
Sent: Monday, July 15, 2019 7:41 PM
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Subject: [LUTE] Re: All music (was Siena Manuscript No. 17 - Ricercar
Don't anyone dare calling a 500 bar passomezzo "filler" music ... It was
more properly called "staircase" music (passomezzo in Italian means:
"mind your step"). It took a long time to go down from upstairs to the
ballroom with all the heavy dresses and hats and swords and so forth,
hence the
> On Jul 15, 2019, at 8:44 AM, theoj89...@new-old-mail.cs.dartmouth.edu wrote:
>
> I would posit that the father has a much higher probability
> of being more accurate, in that 'all pop music sounds the same', or
> certainly -much- pop music sounds the same, no?
I couldn’t tell you. First,
Howard wrote:
> On 13.07.19 19:30, John Mardinly wrote:
>
>> My teenage daughter says all classical music sounds the same. I tell
>> her all pop music sounds the same. Who is right?
>
> Ooh, easy one:
>
> You’re both wrong. You’re both making sweeping categorical
> statements based on
Notes are measurable criteria...
It depends on your measuring equipment if something can be said about
similarity.
On 15.07.19 18:41, Christopher Stetson wrote:
In my opinion the problem would be coming up with measurable criteria
for "sounds the same".
Best, and keep playing
In my opinion the problem would be coming up with measurable criteria
for "sounds the same".
Best, and keep playing (wherever you think it came from),
Chris.
On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 11:48 AM
<[1]theoj89...@new-old-mail.cs.dartmouth.edu> wrote:
Given the book "The Song
Given the book "The Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory", by John
Seabrook, I would posit that the father has a much higher probability
of being more accurate, in that 'all pop music sounds the same', or
certainly -much- pop music sounds the same, no?
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