On 7 Jul 99, giles.ward@postoffice.co.uk wrote re: Re: (idm) i write the songs ... bar:
quoted 2 lines Yep.. songs have lyrics and are sung. But people don't like that in IDM> Yep.. songs have lyrics and are sung. But people don't like that in IDM
> songs do they? ;-)
Yes - I think that is so, but the querent was asking for a definition
of "song" and in my book a song is a (melodic) piece of music with
words which is to be sung. Sing, sang, sung, song -
etymologically they all hang together. So the IDM music we listen
to generally is/are best described as "tracks" rather than "songs".
Thassall.
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