THE SOCIETY OF MUISC THEORY AND THE TEMPO OF THE BEATLES

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	THE SOCIETY OF MUISC THEORY AND THE TEMPO OF THE BEATLES

ianschneider

1-18-2008 7:41 PM

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ianschneider says:

Is anyone supposed to take this type of analysis seriously? "Features slow tempi with a fast feel???" Could ya be like, any more vague"

Is this a REMOTELY OBJECTIVE WAY to discuss tempo? The author is just hoping that by that point in the article, all points of critical thought rendering you able to distinguish between a an oversimplified , generalization sentence and a sentence that actually asserts a truth is gone. Is is *that* hard to say what "tempi" he means - wait - that would mean actually *calibrating the tempo in a tetsable, repeatable manner. Oops.

Hunter Newman

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