Re: [spoon-discuss] Re: [Spoon-business] NWEEK 36 BALLOT

["The Voice" <nomicvoice0@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: Daniel Lepage <dplepage@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: spoon-discuss@xxxxxxxxx
> To: spoon-discuss@xxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [spoon-discuss] Re: [Spoon-business] NWEEK 36 BALLOT
> Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 18:26:21 -0500
>
>
> On Thursday, March 13, 2003, at 09:31  AM, Glotmorf wrote:
>
> > > Proposal 1375/0: New Form Bonus (Wonko)
> >
> > Yes.  Interesting phrasing.  Considering starting a...literary society?
>
> Well, really I'd been thinking about a sing-along club, although a 
> full-fledged lit club might make more sense... especially if the Song Prop 
> fails...
>
> > > Proposal 1377/0: Sing Along! (Wonko)
> >
> > No.  Rap is technically considered music, and therefore gives too much 
> > leeway.
>
> According to Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, music involves the 
> succession of tones. In fact, there is a specific note: "Not all sounds are 
> tones. Sounds may be unmusical and yet please the ear. Music deals with 
> tones, and with no other sounds. See Tone." This would suggest that 
> something such as rap, which focuses more on beats than tones, is not 
> actually music. Unless you mean in the zoological sense, where it means "A 
> more or less musical sound made by many of the lower animals. See 
> Stridulation."
>
> I guess the question is, does Dave consider a work of Rap to be music?
>
> --
> Wonko

I'm just interested as to why you have capitalized "Rap" in your last 
sentence... :)

-0-The Voice-0-

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