21. "it's just the poetry notation is potentially very useful" In response to In response to 20
you gotta remember poetry is aaaaaaancient, and it's always been intended for reading aloud a lot of poetry is written to a rhythm that you can only understand if you read aloud
and my concern is that rapping is too complex, too 'human', to be adequately described in mechanical notation maybe we need looser terms
linguists developed a system for notating sentences. predicates, verb phrases, headwords, subclauses blablabla problem is no one TALKS like that even though they understand those rules and write with them (in formal writing) so creating a system for notation of conversation is a whole new challenge conversation exist in that realm of human complexity
>I say musicians because they don't really have the poetic >license to do the stuff that they do in most of them raps. >also poetry is really a written form (despite the spoken word >movement) and rapping is a performance form. so it falls more >in line with music. unless you want to go the shakespeare >route and call albums plays in which MC's play numerous >characters using rhyme schemes to turn a phrase or more. nah >i say stick to music.
-------------------- Why do you choose to mimic these wack MCs? Why do you choose to listen to R&B?
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