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Re: It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World! (02)

by "Matthew Fields" <spam@[EMAIL PROTECTED] > May 28, 2005 at 02:40 PM

In article <d78suh$s83$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
Albert Silverman <slvrmn@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>The Tortoise:
>
>     I'm a little slow to grasp this vital musical concept. Can anyone
>     tell me what a "distant interval" is?
>
>The Hatter:
>
>     Certainly. It's an interval that is so far out that it has no
>     practical compositional im****tance whatsoever. NONE. NONE. NONE.
NONE.
>     NONE. NONE.....
>
>     For example, if three tones form an interval that........
>
>Alice:
>
>     Surely you are talking about a "dissonant" interval. It is indeed
far
>     out. Although no one around here seems to appreciate this fact, it
is
>     so far out as to be compositionally irrelevant.
>
>The Hatter:
>
>     Leave my family out of this.
>
>The Tortoise:
>
>     What's in a name?
>
>The Frog:
>
>     And here I thought that I was the only one around here who is all
>     wet.
>
>
>-------------------------
>Albert Silverman
>(Al is in Wonderland!)
>where relevance is irrelevant
>(02)


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Re: It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World! (02)
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