Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site mhuxr.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mfs From: mfs@mhuxr.UUCP (SIMON) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: Whoaaa...Doug. Bach vs. Bush Message-ID: <376@mhuxr.UUCP> Date: Wed, 10-Jul-85 07:59:49 EDT Article-I.D.: mhuxr.376 Posted: Wed Jul 10 07:59:49 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 11-Jul-85 20:21:53 EDT References: <3021@decwrl.UUCP> <4623@mit-eddie.UUCP> <373@mhuxr.UUCP> <4636@mit-eddie.UUCP> <4637@mit-eddie.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Lines: 21 > > From: mfs@mhuxr.UUCP (SIMON) > > > You might want to reflect on the fact that Bach invented the Western > > system of musical notation, something that EVERY other musician that > > came later owes to him, including Kate Bush. > > You might want to reflect, also, that there are many musicians, > including Kate Bush, who don't use this extremely limiting system of > musical notation. > > Doug Alan > nessus@mit-eddie.UUCP (or ARPA) But they learned it, at least in beginnings, used it, and then went on to less restrictive (to them; an amazingly broad range of music has been notated in Bach's system or slight extensions of it) So they still walked the paths cleared by old Joe, even if they later went beyond Marcel Simon