>Gregorian chants are Harmonies. If not, there'd be ONE cat
>singing. Not five. just like Doo-Wop. A low cat, a middle cat
>and a high cat. You know DAMNED well Gregorian Chants have
>harmony.

That's false. Check it out for yourself. It evolved from this into polyphony with counterpoint. But Gregorian chants are monophonic, sometimes only using like three notes through the whole piece. No harmonies.

>so you're blaming the lack of knowledge amongst Hip-Hop heads
>on the Academics? I thought Hip-Hop created it's OWN language.
>C'mon, man...

No this whole post is just about the academics. Not the heads. The academics can only float their shit through sociology departments, and sound stupid when asked to actually defend the music. They'll defend mysogeny, homophobia, violence, etc. But defend the actual music. *silence*

>>Some of the greatest jazz musicians in the world couldn't
>name
>>a c-major scale. Doesn't mean they weren't musical.
>
>SOME. I see your point, but for the MOST part, Jazz musicians
>read music. If reading music wasn't such a big part of it, you
>wouldn't have used that as your argument.

Reading music is whatever. Not the basis for determining someones musical ability. That's my point.

>>Why must something comply with other formats to be
>considered
>>in its own right?
>>
>
>because as with ANY other system there's RULES. Why does
>2+2=4? Because we use the Base 10 numeral system, and within
>the confines of that system, 2 + 2 must ALWAYS equal 4.
>Otherwise, the system falls apart.

The system must fall apart but that's a wholy different post. Honestly I just don't understand defending notation as the basis for music, but it's beside my point now.

>So don't give me all that "Western blah blah blah" shit.
>Because prior to this discussion, music follows the laws of
>mathmatics, and if we use those rules, then we have to follow
>ALL of them.

WRONG WRONG WRONG.

Music doesn't follow any laws. Laws were created to help the uninitiated follow music.



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