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From: Carl@tgr.UUCP (VLD/VMB) 
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Subject: Re:  Orphaned Response
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Date: Thu, 29-Nov-84 08:20:32 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov 29 08:20:32 1984
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To reply to a note by dat%hpcnoe.uucp:
I did hear a criticism of many modern serious composers: too much going
on.  As for popular music:
An example of not enough going on is Linda Ronstadt's version of
"Heat Wave": in the part where the title is sung, it is missing the
parallel 4ths found in the music in the corresponding part of Martha
& the Vandellas' version, c. 1963.  But "Talking in Your Sleep" by
the Romantics is a good recording because of the guitar part.

My current interest in "things going on" in the music is in the style
I knew on children's labels like Peter Pan and Cricket, where a typical
song would have a vocal, a rhythm guitar, and (brush-stroke?) percussion,
with the spice (of "things going on") provided by woodwind instruments.