On Apr 7, 2006, at 3:52 PM, Christopher Smith wrote:
On Apr 7, 2006, at 1:25 PM, Phil Daley wrote:
If there are no notated pitches, it is not music.
It is performance art.
Thanks for making my point.
Phil, where in the world did you get such a narrow definition of
music? I don't know ANYONE who defines music so narrowly.
This, to me, is the key point. Individuals don't get to change the
meaning of common words by fiat, like Humpty Dumpty in _Alice in
Wonderland_. Words mean what they do by concensus of those who use the
language in which the word occurs. Phil's definition of "music" has no
concensus behind it even as *a* meaning of music, much less *the*
meaning. If I say that "music" means "tree," that will not make it mean
"tree" *even to me* no matter how often or how emphatically I say
otherwise.
Andrew Stiller
Kallisti Music Press
http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/
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