Ian Crisp wrote: >Bob may well be right that "we" will never agree on a definition - but >that does not mean that the pursuit of such a definition is a pointless >activity. There may be valuable understandings to be found along the way >- and in my personal history of exploration of the boundaries of music, >there certainly have been. Well, Ian. I agree with you entirely. The only thing I would add that is if anyone does not accept that definition of music, they are just making life difficult for themselves and others. But I do think that everyone does know instinctively what is music and, whether they like it or not, that definition covers anything that can be reasonably called music. David Stewart [log in to unmask]