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Oxford University wants to cancel musical notation: It’s difficult to believe that this story is real but it seems to be
American Thinker ^
| 03/29/2021
| Andrea Widburg
Posted on 03/29/2021 8:51:51 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
But how would one know in what key one was playing? /s
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posted on
05/26/2021 10:24:22 AM PDT
by
OKSooner
("The virus is not the reason for the vaccine. The vaccine is the reason for the virus." )
To: SeekAndFind
“Idiocracy” was a documentary.
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posted on
05/26/2021 10:26:51 AM PDT
by
Pajamajan
( PRAY FOR OUR NATION. I will never be a peaceful slave in a new Socialist America.)
To: SunkenCiv
Jimi Hendrix couldn’t read sheet music.
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posted on
05/26/2021 10:36:06 AM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity. )
To: SunkenCiv
I don’t think that the Swampers at Muscle Shoals could either
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posted on
05/26/2021 10:36:28 AM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity. )
To: SeekAndFind
Why stop at musical notation? As far as I know no sub-Saharan culture ever developed a form of writing so let’s eliminate that too while we’re at it.
To: dfwgator
“If Miles Davis was still alive, he’d find the person who would say this kind of garbage and kick their ass.”
And dittos for Charley Pride, Louis Armstrong, Aretha Franklin, Nat King Cole, Bob Marley, Marvin Gaye, James Brown, Ella Fitzgerald, Whitney Houston....the list goes on and on.
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posted on
05/26/2021 1:11:06 PM PDT
by
oldvirginian
(Shut up and sing, shut up and dribble, shut up and play, shut up and act...just SHUT UP)
To: Hootowl
“Even worse musical notation provides rythym and melody”
Also, it makes children more apt to do well in math. And, as we know, math is racist.
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posted on
05/26/2021 1:15:25 PM PDT
by
MayflowerMadam
(Faith, not fear. Faith, not faintheartedness.)
To: bk1000
Come on, white people. Push back on this nonsense! C'mon people now Smile on your brother Everybody get together Try to love one another right now
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posted on
05/26/2021 1:16:00 PM PDT
by
1Old Pro
(Let's make crime illegal again!)
To: Harmless Teddy Bear
With the nihilists anyhow.
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posted on
05/26/2021 1:18:45 PM PDT
by
aspasia
To: Steely Tom
It is time forfree expression without racist, exclusivistic, restrictions to keep people down. We need more creative freedom so we can hear music like this!
https://youtu.be/5umEUBDXfU0
Take that haters!
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posted on
05/26/2021 1:29:41 PM PDT
by
Drawsing
(Fools show their annoyance at once, the prudent man overlooks an insult. Proverbs 12:16)
To: a fool in paradise
Jimmy Page couldn’t either.
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posted on
05/27/2021 4:36:32 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: AndyJackson
To: Drawsing
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posted on
05/31/2021 9:35:16 PM PDT
by
ADemocratNoMore
(The Fourth Estate is now the Fifth Column)
To: SeekAndFind
It claimed that teaching musical notation had 'not shaken off its connection to its colonial past' and would be 'a slap in the face' to some students. Anybody stupid enough to feel that way needs to be slapped. Twice.
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posted on
05/31/2021 9:53:15 PM PDT
by
Mr. Jeeves
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