On 2002/11/10 10:16 PM or thereabouts, Christopher BJ Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> intoned:
> 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? Not necessarily (of course). > If > one wants a good (read, applicable to most, if not all) definition of > composer, it can't include that. Agreed, but I was trying to take Linda up on her own terms. Implicitly, that was the definition of "composer" she was endorsing (or one of them, at least), which is why I chose to address it. - Darcy ------ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Boston, MA _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
