At 5:24 PM -0500 11/10/02, Darcy James Argue wrote:
Now that we got that out of the way, the idea of "definitiveness" or "specificity" is absolutely central to composition in the 19th century.
Sure. But is it central to composition in other times and places? If one wants a good (read, applicable to most, if not all) definition of composer, it can't include that.
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Normally, I'm quite happy referring to everyone in this ragged assembly as a full-fledged composer and calling it a night. But occasionally it's also useful to make finer distinctions, or to call attention to the various gradations between "barely specified at all" and "you better play this exactly the way I want or I'll kick your ass."
OK, I'll buy that. Back to Finale, now. Christopher _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
