In article <slrnd8qt67.ndf.slvrmn@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
Albert Silverman <slvrmn@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>On 2005-05-20, Rick Massey <seafox@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>> I figure if he still insists on obfuscating the bloody obvious after my
last
>> post, then I'm going to killfile him and be done with it. I've avoided
the
>> Burlington Northern jokes simply because it's just too easy, and I
don't
>> like getting personal on Newsgroups. But if he keeps using musical
terms in
>> his own way, then his TQ (Troll Quotient) will go way up with me.
>
>Exactly what I predicted! One who can't stand the heat is getting out of
>the kitchen. By all means, do shut out that material that you cannot
answer.
>
>
> In *my* book, one who thinks that a tri-tone is a *tone* hardly
> knows enough about music to stay in the kitchen.
>
>One who does not understand what a "root" is, or does not understand what
>a chord is and how it is used, or who does not understand what musical
>organization means (much less is), what musical style is, what a
>"sub-tonic" is, etc., etc., etc., is well advised not to try to stay up
>with one who *does* know what all of these things (and many, many, more)
>are about.
>
> The chip on *my* shoulder comes from superb knowledge,
> analytical ability, and a great many years of musical experience;
> where does that chip on *your* shoulder come from?
>
>Unfortunately, Texas is not big enough to swallow up your errors and
>lack of musical knowledge. There is No place to hide. That kitchen is
just
>too damned hot, even hotter than the Texas plains in summertime.
>
>Why should *I* attempt to reason with a Babe-in-the-Woods who does not
>even know what he is trying to debate? *This* is the sorry state of music
>education today: the most Authoritarian operation on the face of the
>earth, next to the Catholic Church. Look that up in the dictionary. In
>short:
>
> Yours not to reason why; yours but to Cry, Cry, and Cry.....
>
>Your basic problem was that you didn't know who the *TEACHER* was.
>Perhaps you do now. Let me assure you that it was not *you*. Please
>promise to put me in your killfile, before you get heat stroke! And no
>cheating. The woodwork is crawling with those who promised to do the same
>thing, but somehow or another managed to read *all* of my material, while
>at the same time claiming that they had me killfiled. But they could
>not resist giving themselves away. Why do you suppose this is?
>
>
> Bye-bye, Hot Stuff!
>
>Come back and teach *me* in about twenty-five years.
>
>
>
>Albert Silverman
>(Al is in Wonderland!)
>where students believe that they are teachers
>but not for very long
--
Matthew H. Fields http://personal.www.umich.edu/~fields
Music: Splendor in Sound
To be great, do things better and better. Don't wait for talent: no such
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