Jon Gallant <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>Accordingly, I offer this statistical definition of "classical" as opposed
>to "popular": music in which the probability (or frequency) of a measure
>not in common time is greater than 0.0000000001.Although some may find this
>simple definition overly reductive, it is easy enough to use that we could
>teach it to a computer, and thereby automate the process of making this
>distinction.

Why on earth would we want a computer doing that? Just reduce music to a
basic statistic? Mon Dieu!  I hope not.  I remember the radio show host
DeKoven deploring these debates that really never accomplish anything.
He suggested that there really are only two kinds of music: good and bad.

Kim Patrick Clow ([log in to unmask])