Re: OT: Musical languistics

John:
> That's true of most of the so-called art of any age (Sturgeon's Law:
> 90% of everything is crud).  When looking at the past, though,
> most of the crud has already been filtered out for us: we keep the good
> stuff, the bad stuff goes to oblivion.  Who can name a single work of
> anglophone dramatic art between the 1660s and the 1890s, excepting
> _Uncle Tom's Cabin_, whose interest is primarily political/historical?
Sheridan, 1751-1816. The Rivals, 1775. School for Scandal, 1777.

But I agree with Sturgeon's Law, except that I'd say everything's 99%
crud, of which, 2% is excellent crud.

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