Re: It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World! (56)

In article <slrnd7rbtk.hes.slvrmn@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
Albert Silverman  <slvrmn@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>On 2005-05-08, xeno <xeno@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Sat, 7 May 2005, Albert Silverman wrote:
>>
>>> What do *you* believe is most im****tant, assuming that the goal is to
>>> inform those very few in this Wonderful(!) forum who are seriously
>>> interested in understanding chord-based musical principles?
>>
>> That all vivable theory is a reflection of practice & only through
>> practice will systems of harmony or any similar musical what-have-you
will
>> be realizable.
>>
>What is a "system" of harmony?
>
>
>Albert Silverman
>(Al is in Wonderland!)
>where musical principles are irrelevant


You really ought to try music, Al. These discussions which keep
whizzing over your head would become clear to you if you did.


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