Well, I've heard several french hhhhhhh ... sorry... french hhhhhhhiiiiiiii ... sorry ... I meant french hhhorn players that one could barely call musicians... but we all try and some are more talented at what we do than others. DJ's which are good can make you move and can communicate with other musicians with scratching, playing beats and working on tempos, etc. There's no point in writing them off as non-musicians when what comes out of their instruments is music. Unless you want to have a cow about it. There are people that don't consider Jazz music at all, and others that don't find any reason to listen to folk songs. I would classify a record-playing DJ as a percussionist.
You hit a note on the piano and you're a musician. But all you're doing is placing a finger here and there. You lower the needle onto a record and the world says: "Hey! Anybody can do that!" when in fact it has always been the way we make these movements that matter. In music, intent defines much more than mere physics. Liudas ----- Original Message ----- From: "Crystal Premo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 2:54 PM Subject: [Finale] TAN: What maketh a musician? > A co-worker insists that a deejay is a musician. I say that is a load, that > at most he is perhaps an editer or producer. > > Can a legitimate case be made in his defense? > > Crystal Premo > [EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _________________________________________________________________ > MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 2 months FREE* > http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
