On Fri, 29 Dec 2006 10:55:28 -0800, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
Saying that a musical work is in E-flat is not criticism; it's meta-data where there is a high degree of probability that subject-educated readers will draw the same conclusion from identical data contained in the musical score. Other information that could constitute original research in a musical context when it is not put there by the composer would be terms like "andante" or "allegro" to indicate the speed of the work
Or stating that a song is in a given time signature, or perhaps in triple metre, based on listening to it (a real-world example from some time back). The fact that the editor in question asserted that 6/8 is triple metre rather weakened their argument, in my mind anyway.
Guy (JzG)