source file: mills2.txt Date: Sat, 29 Mar 1997 18:23:36 -0800 Subject: Re: Tail Wagging the Dog? From: mr88cet@texas.net (Gary Morrison) > I'm inclined to think that the relative importances of Theory majors >studying patterns in the existing repertoire, and of them exploring future >possibilities, are about equal. I should qualify that: When it comes to actually composing or performing I think that we should shoot for the future directions, but as far as the raw book-work studying of music, I think that figuring out where we're coming from is about equally important with figuring out what's next. Well, roughly anyway... Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Sun, 30 Mar 1997 20:46 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA21519; Sun, 30 Mar 1997 21:46:14 +0200 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA21526 Received: from by ella.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) id LAA04823; Sun, 30 Mar 1997 11:44:16 -0800 Date: Sun, 30 Mar 1997 11:44:16 -0800 Message-Id: Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@ella.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@ella.mills.edu