Simon Wascher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> there are french baroque tempo definitions, german expressionist tempo
> definitions , tempo definitions in all languages of the world which *do*
> have their regional value.
> It would really be extremly rigid to stuck with those oldfashioned
> classical music's set of italian tempo descriptors which have in no way
> a consistent well defined generally accepted meaning as every
> musicologist can demonstrate.
Yes, but the whole point of Jack's original proposal was for people to
be able to define the meanings of these terms themselves, in a manner
appropriate to the music they were working with. The suggestion to
hard-code a selection of `tempo terms' (a bad one, IMHO) came from
elsewhere, quite a bit later.
Anselm
--
Anselm Lingnau .......................................... [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bicycles have their proper place, and that place is under small boys delivering
evening papers.
-- P. J. O'Rourke, *A Cool and Logical Analysis of the Bicycle Menace*
To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
