It all depends on whether the sentence really IS a sentence (or a fragment).
Ask any of my former comp students. ;-)
jeff
Jacob Arnold wrote:
http://www.getitwriteonline.com/archive/032601.htm
"Most likely, many people believe they should not start a sentence with a
coordinating conjunction because their grammar teachers in grade school
discouraged them from doing so. Yet such a rule is completely
unjustifiable."
;-)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You started a sentence with "Or"?
;-)
MEK
"kent williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 09/25/2008 10:24:46 AM:
When I defended my Master's Project I promised myself never to go back
to school. After nearly 30 years of schooling I realized that I'm a
terrible student. Ironically my work now is in an Academic department
of the College of Medicine. I work with and for professors and grad
students. But I just write software -- I leave it to them to do the
academics. Suckers!
But every so often I have an idea that has academic potential, and
when I think of following through on it I break out in a cold sweat.
But no reason not to share it:
Detroit Techno's signature sound is based in part on dramatic string
or string-like chord patterns over a bed of beats not that far from
classic Chicago House. Contrary to the norm in western music, the
chords are likely to be 'parallel' -- i.e. a pattern of 4 chords will
be one chord, transposed from the root 3 times.
The traditional harmonic rules of Western music, by contrast are more
parsimonious in tonal motion -- i.e. any two chords in sequence will
most likely retain any common notes. The transition between two
dissimilar chords will move from one chord to the inversion of the
second chord with the least interval distance from the notes of the
first.
If you are not a musician, your eyes are probably rolling up in your
head by now, so more concretely: The Detroit way if played on a piano
would involve moving your whole hand, but using (roughly) the same
spacing of your fingers. The traditional way would keep your hand
mostly in the same place, but change the spacing between your fingers.
My suspicion is that the 'Detroit' chords came at least in part from a
feature of the Roland Alpha Juno synthesizer, which had a feature
called 'chord memory' -- you could play a chord, push a button, and
thereafter, you could play that same chord with one finger on the
lowest note of the original chord. Or, you could play a transposed
chord by playing a different single note.
A perfect example of the meshing of these two approaches in one song
is UR's 'Jupiter Jazz' -- there is the signature stacatto chords of
the synthesizer -- with parallel chord transposition, and a denser
female chorus sound that exhiibits the more traditional conservation
of harmonic motion. That contrast and overlay of two different
harmonic strategies is part of what makes that song so compelling.
Well, that, and the bubbling acid line. And Mad Mike's soaring synth
soloing...
