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Re: Break or not a break?

From: mrees@pppmail.nyser.net (Michael Rees)
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 96 06:54:54
Subject: Re: Break or not a break?
To: love-hounds@gryphon.com
In-Reply-To: <960911185053_199480008@emout05.mail.aol.com> (from IEDSRI@aol.com) (at Wed, 11 Sep 1996 18:50:53 -0400)
Organization: Department of Redundancy Department
Reply-To: mrees@pppmail.nyser.net (Michael Rees)
Sender: owner-love-hounds

Hi there, IED. On Sep 11, you wrote:

=> heard the first of these notes (a semiquaver higher than the second) as an

You have compromised your credibility as a 'semiquaver' is a unit of _time_, 
not of frequency (and, yes, I do realize that frequency is also time, but in 
a different perceptual domain).

And for my 2p to this whole thread, I offer a quote from a famous insurance 
salesman:

   "Don't listen too closely to the notes or you will miss the music."

Probably I should add that Charles Ives also had a thing or two to do with 
music as well.

m.

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Michael Rees        <mrees@pppmail.nyser.net>
Composer &c.
                                      "Hold to the now, the here, through 
                                       which all future plunges to past."
                                               --James Joyce (in Ulysses)
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