I am a lurker here, but I find this conversation rather amusing. On the one hand, the need for labels in interesting. Do garbage collecters still want to be called "sanitation engineers?"
Let me see, I have written or created and had published, and been paid for poetry, crossword puzzles, a book, cartoons, short fiction, songs, instrumental pieces (some I "composed" and some I arranged) and ... I could drive a printer nuts designing me a business card. On the other hand, someone needs to lighten up. If a garbage collector wants to be a sanitation engineer, all the more power to him. No harm in letting him take a bit of pride in himself and his work...might spur him on to better work. If a "noodler" calls himself a "composer," what do I care? The only thing that matters to me is.....do I like the music? Which brings up another semantic issue, to me, "country music" is an oxymoron, but, to my neighbor, jazz is nothing but a bunch of noise. To each their own. Terrell D Lewis Music For A New Age http://www.angelfire.com/music5/hymnal/ http://stage.vitaminic.com/main/terrell_lewis/ http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/418/terrell_d_lewis.html ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dennis Bathory-Kitsz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, November 09, 2002 12:34 PM Subject: Re: [Finale] Midi files to Finale files (was "NO Subject") > At 07:52 AM 11/9/02 -0800, Linda Worsley wrote: > >Well, sure. I spent half a century learning the skills it takes to > >be a "composer"... I resent the people who will not take the same > >trouble to learn anything but noodle into MIDI devices and call > >themselves "composers". > > And if you produce bad music and they produce great music, who is the > composer? > > >when I want to "compose" (according to the > >dictionary,"to form by putting together; to form the substance of : > >to create by mental or artistic labor': to formulate and write (a > >piece of music);to arrange in proper or orderly form") I commit the > >original musical thoughts I have to graphic representation that can > >be read, performed, and interpreted by others. > > We have different dictionaries. Mine is simpler: "To create or produce (a > literary or musical piece)." I don't see any lines drawn there. > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
