Subject: Re: On the Grammar of Music From: Stephen McAdams <Stephen.McAdams(at)IRCAM.FR> Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 00:08:13 +0200> There are no such rules. Since Ed Burns isn't on this list anymore, I guess someone else has to huff and puff and blow the house down and say "Stop the patent nonsense!" Anyone who truly believes there are no rules in music would give up working on the neuroscience of music and become a roofer. At least there the basic rule is, water flows down hill (unless you don't believe there are rules concerning gravity and water flow). -- Stephen McAdams Equipe Perception et Cognition Musicales Ircam-CNRS (UMR 9912) 1 place Igor-Stravinsky F-75004 Paris, France tel: +33.1.4478.4838, fax +33.1.4478.1540 http://www.ircam.fr/pcm/