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Old 09-11-2008, 08:00 PM   #49 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by sleepy jack View Post
I'm sorry transcendent usually means beyond categories (in music terms genre) or superior to (but you didn't list anything for Elliott to be inferior to...)
Saying that a musician didn't produce "superior" music doesn't require an explicit subject for comparison. It is quite commonly used to mean "superior to the rest of music." Which, lo and behold, I specified after you questioned me about the word.
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