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Re: relevance
- From: Joshua Horowitz <horowitz...>
- Subject: Re: relevance
- Date: Tue 15 Jan 2002 18.53 (GMT)
What do you have against taking on board other peoples' personal whimsy and
mistakes?J.
>From: Judith R Cohen <judithc (at) YorkU(dot)CA>
>To: World music from a Jewish slant <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
>Subject: relevance
>Date: Tue, Jan 15, 2002, 1:42 AM
>
>> Determining where the prototype of the tune leaves off and where personal
>> fancy comes in is only relevant when we are trying to translate the song
>> into another medium (sound form to paper form),
>
> Hi, well, what about when one is learning to perform that piece, and
> wants to figure out to what extent that rendition is "traditional" and
> to what extent there is personal whimsy or simply a mistake in it? J
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