On Fri, 29 Dec 2006 10:55:28 -0800, Ray Saintonge
<saintonge(a)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)
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