In article <BEBDD7B8.A106%possible20@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
Albert Silverman <possible20@[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........
>
>The Barroom Piano Player:
>
> What an ignoramus you are. You *obviously* have no concept of what
> intervals are. They are notes. No, they are tones. No, no, they
are
> sounds. How can you not know this and call yourself a "Hatter." I
> know this, but I'm the only one who knows this and even the "Doctor"
> doesn't know this. I'm the only one. That's how intelligent I am
and
> how stupid you are.
>
>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 Barroom Piano Player:
>
> You *obviously* don't know what intervals are. There are
fifths...and
> fourths, and minor third, but if you call them that your mind is
full
> of ancient ideas and trash. Only I have the intelligence to call
> them "-3." Not even the "Doctor" knows enough about music to call
them
> "-3." Only I know 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.
>
>The Barroom Piano Player:
>
> No, the "Doctor" is all wet too. He thinks there's something called
a
> "sixth." But he *obviously* has no idea about what intervals are.
> Only I know that since I play everything in root position that there
> can be no such thing as a sixth.
>
>The Hatter:
>
> I wish I hadn't lost my prescription for Lithium.
>
>
>
>-------------------------
>Albert Silverman
>(Al is in Wonderland!)
>but I should be in Cleveland, but I forgot
>to take my meds, and got on a bus when I
>thought I was going to a movie.
>(02)
>
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Matthew H. Fields http://personal.www.umich.edu/~fields
Music: Splendor in Sound
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