At 1:04 PM -0500 4/1/06, Phil Daley wrote:
At 4/1/2006 12:32 PM, Andrew Stiller wrote:
>OK, you started this one, so you can answer it first - how DO you
define
>music?
Pitch and rhythm. Words are secondary.
Rap has rhythm. End of story.
Every rap song I have ever heard includes at least fragments of melody.
In the overarching category of hip-hop (which I am interested to note
has not been mentioned once in this thread), pitch dominates.
Could you make a score of a "rap piece" so that another group could
perform it and it would be identical to the original performance?
(By which I mean, the same pitches.)
I take a big chance getting between Andrew and Phil here, BUT:
That's something of a red herring because they are not absolute
pitches but relative pitches, and yes, I could do that quite easily.
Just as I have written rap passages using x-noteheads in relative
positions on the staff. Piece--as they say--of cake! And the
realization would be a little different with a different performer,
but when has that EVER not been true in music?
John
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