Bill Pirkle <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>Ian Crisp wrote:
>
>>I line myself up with those who think Bill's distinction is a long way
>>off-beam.
>
>Now is it really a "long way" off the beam.  Consider that 99% of all
>popular music has a continuous drum beat and 99% of all classical music
>does not.

I would suggest that music with a continuous drum beat was/is made for
dancing or derives stylistically from music that was originally made for
dancing or mimics and should remind of music made for dancing.  IMHO a lot
of muisc that would fit into this category is not pop, e.g.  most jazz,
some art-rock, some folk, especially Bebop and Free Jazz and whatever
happened to these styles till now.

Achim Breiling