His short-term memory must be shot.
In article <da03m7$e2q$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 importance 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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