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Re: music by numbers



just wanted to point out that neither of those quotes were from me.
also: sparrows clearly know something of aerodynamics.

> Numbers are just language.  An abstraction we use to describe natural
> phenomana.  Useful, but not nessecary at all.  Music doesn not "go by
> the numbers" but it can be described with them.  I suck at math and
> barely read music.  Sparrows know nothing of areodynamics either, yet
> they fly REAL GOOD.
> 
> Mark Sottilaro
> 
> jim palmer wrote:
> > 
> > > "Everything in music goes by numbers"
> > >
> > > playing the devil's advocate, but who is to say which came first?  
>for
> > > example: perhaps everything in numbers goes by music.  why are 
>numbers
> > > considered the basis?
> > >
> > 
> >
>