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

[Daniel Lepage <dplepage@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday, March 14, 2003, at 12:13  AM, Glotmorf wrote:

> On 3/13/03 at 6:26 PM Daniel Lepage wrote:
>
> > > > 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?
>
> Unfortunately, rap is measured in "songs", and "songs" are what your 
> prop is tied to.  Your prop doesn't actually say "music".  I suppose 
> that means I could write props based on the Song of Hiawatha...or 
> better still, the Song of Solomon.  Pull up a KJV and figure out the 
> rhythm and rhyme of that one.

If you're willing to take the time to duplicate the Song of Solomon in 
proposal form, that's fine with me. The word 'song' has a number of 
possible interpretations; the point of the last verse of the prop is to 
give Dave the power to decide whether or not a given "song" is actually 
a song.

--
Wonko

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