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From: maverick@mahogany.Berkeley.EDU (Vance Maverick)
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Subject: composition is dead?
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Date: 27 Jun 91 16:18:28 GMT
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In article <11273@idunno.Princeton.EDU>, eliot@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Eliot
Handelman) writes:
|> [lots of relevant if extravagantly phrased stuff about listening]
|> And last of all "composition" is dead,
|> significant music is not made that way anymore.

Oh yes?  I'm almost sure that (1) you've made the case for this rather ominously proscriptive claim before, and (2) that you probably mean something milder and seek in your vehemence primarily to get our goats, but (hey) I'll allow my goat to be gotten.  How do you know I can't make "significant" music by composing?  And how do you know when music is significant anyway?  Citation?  Record sales?

	Vance