[Dixielandjazz] "Crotchets"

[Larry Walton Entertainment]

Crotchet is the sound an old drummer makes when he stands up.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Gunter" <jazzboard at hotmail.com>
To: <robert.smith at mitransport.no>; <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 1:08 PM
Subject: RE: [Dixielandjazz] "Crotchets"


> Hi Robert,
>
> Thanks for the update on the term "Crotchet."  I had looked it up in my
> Merriam-Webster and didn't find it. But right after I e-mailed you to ask
> what it was I went and looked it up in  my Elson's Music Dictionary and
> there it was.
>
> By the way, you wrote:
>
> >Of course the total number that I calculated includes an enormous number
of
> >combinations of notes that wouldn't be considered melodies, e.g. 16 F#'s
on
> >the beat, but it wouldn't surprise me to learn that a John Cage had
already
> >written such a tune.
>
> How about a song that has the following for the first 16 notes?:
>
> G-E-G-E-G-E-G-E / G-E-G-E-G-E-G-E / . . .
>
> It looks like that may be a pretty dumb song. But if you didn't recognize
it
> you might sing the lyrics . . . "Nothing could be finer than to be in
> Carolina in the . . ."
>
> admittedly, this song doesn't use straight quarter notes. Instead it uses
> dotted eights and 16ths.
>
> Also, I don't think John Cage was capable of writing somethat that
> sophisticated!   :-)
>
> Respectfully submitted,
>
> Bill "Thimbles" Gunter
> jazzboard at hotmail.com
>
>
>
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