From: jfw@jfwhome.FUNHOUSE.COM (John F. Woods)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: musical taunt in F
Message-ID: <1991Nov16.215948.13150@jfwhome.FUNHOUSE.COM>
Date: 16 Nov 91 21:59:48 GMT
References: <76@bbx.basis.com> <1991Nov16.044629.25005@milton.u.washington.edu> <6395@dirac.physics.purdue.edu>
Organization: Misanthropes-R-Us

In <6395@dirac.physics.purdue.edu> sho@gibbs.physics.purdue.edu (Sho Kuwamoto) writes:
>>It's not. It might be 'C'. It might be 'Am'. It's not 'F'.
>Why not?  Let's look at the evidence: 
>  * musical structure: It is nearly impossible to tell if
>         this song is in C, a, F, or another key by looking at the melody
>         alone.  Surely, you can imagine harmonizing this in F, no?
>         For me, it seems perfectly natural.

Well, no, I can't imagine harmonizing it in F.  On the other hand, I'm rather
partial to:

                                              z      
>>|>>>---|\-------------FOOM!------------------z--------------------------------
>>|>>>   | |                                    z    |budda-budda-budda-budda-bu
>>|>>>---|/-----------------------------ma-------z------------------nya---------
>>|>>>  /|             i've got a          chi-   z  |  nya nya         nya
>>|>>>/--|-----------------------------------------z----------------------------
>>|>>>|  |                        new           ine z|           nya         nya
>>|>>>-\-|_)-----------------------------------------z--------------------------
>>|>>>   |                        SWOOSH             |z
>>|>>>-(_|----------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                          POW!

But I'm probably just distracted by the still-unfinished state of my
Concertina for Howitzer and Heavy Artillery.