At 5:41 PM 03/05/03, John Bell wrote: >For goodness' sake is it necessary to debate this at such length?
Of course it's not necessary, but this is a forum for debates and some of us like to make use of it. I feel like this was a healthy debate, and I for one learned from it. >Musicians who see the old two-eights-equals thing or see the word >Swing either know immediately what it means, or else they don't. No >amount of instructions will ever make a classically trained string >section sound anything other than ridiculous if you try to make them >swing. That's a very gloomy attitude to take. I believe that musicians can learn. Part of our job is to figure out how best to help them do so. mdl _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale