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

[Daniel Lepage <dplepage@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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

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