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- From: rsquires@cyclops.eece.unm.edu (Roger Squires)
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- Subject: Re: The language of music
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- Date: 27 Jan 93 22:16:25 GMT
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- Those interested in the topic, even casually, might
- wish to look for a wonderfully entertaining series
- of lectures on vinyl records by Leonard Bernstein,
- entitled The Norton Lectures, given in '72 at Harvard.
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- He talks about (and demonstrates on the piano) musical
- syntax and semantics, referring to Chomsky, using for
- examples Mozart's 40th and that famous piece by Ives
- who's name I forget that has competing melodic and chaotic
- themes, and asking the question "whither now music?"
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- It's about 12-14 records, and if you are really, really
- lucky, your library may have a copy.
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- Not that any of this has squat to do with rec.arts.books.
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- rms
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