In article <slrnd9jvik.f81.slvrmn@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
Albert Silverman <slvrmn@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>On 2005-05-29, Michael Mossey <michaelmossey@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>
>>
>> You can chop up anything and then say that you "need to understand the
>> pieces before putting them together," but the concept of "putting them
>> together" is only relevant because you first chopped it up.
>
>Nonsense
>
>>
>> I.e., in real music the "chords" are always in a context and cannot be
>> understood separately from that context.
>>
>They certainly *can* be understood out of context, just as a noun or verb
>or adverb or clause or subject or predicate, etc., etc., can be
understood
>apart from a literary context.
>
>Don't tell me that it is unim****tant to understand the nature of
>chord-based organization. It is vitally im****tant to understand it, and
>that means understanding the chord as the element of organization.
>
>It is the failure to understand this concept which is directly
responsible
>for the general state of illiteracy with regard to this particular type
of
>music.
>
>
>
>Albert Silverman
>(Al is in Wonderland!)
>where "understanding" is irrelevant
>
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