Bill Pirkle replies to me:
>And yet since its making is handed down from generation to generation, it
>tenets must be describable somehow.
Only the tenets of music that has already been written. I suppose my
problem with the computer is that it surprises me only with difficulty.
I truly doubt that given one's knowledge of Brahms and Wagner, that one
could have predicted Mahler or Sibelius.
Steve Schwartz