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From: kissell@flairvax.UUCP (Kevin D. Kissell)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: What is music
Message-ID: <425@flairvax.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 23-Mar-84 21:04:09 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar 23 21:04:09 1984
Date-Received: Sun, 25-Mar-84 12:32:11 EST
Organization: Fairchild AI Lab, Palo Alto, CA
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Dear Gnorx:
	Humankind experiences ~20-~20Khz fluctuations in environmental
air pressure as a distinct set of perceptions they call sound.  They have an
instinct to communicate with one another, using sound sequences produced
by vibrating parts of their bodies, which they call speech.
Any sound sequence that they produce deliberately, not purely for verbal
information content, but for its emotional or intellectual associations,
is music.  These emotional and intellectual associations seem to be largely
dependent on cultural conditioning and individual experience. 

B'imm 
Cultural Attache'
Martian Consulate
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