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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 12:07:08 PST
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- From: metlay <metlay@NETCOM.COM>
- Subject: Re: PHIL COMP
- Comments: To: EMUSIC-L@american.edu
- In-Reply-To: <9212211841.AA19993@minerva.phyast.pitt.edu>; from "Robert Depin"
- at Dec 21, 92 11:26 am
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- >
- >I think this dicussion as failed to examin music as a means of communication.
-
- Yes it has, but that's because I deliberately skirted the issue; I've
- been out here long enough to have been over this forever -damned "how
- do we notate electronic music?" thread a bazillion times. For
- electronic music in which timbre is critical, written documentation is
- grossly insufficient. I KNOW that traditional notation lets me hand
- out my arrangements to other musicians for their interpretation; but
- if I'm interested in timbre, then writing stuff down avails me
- nothing. And I should point out that modern methods like Standard MIDI
- Files are not panaceas to this problem in and of themselves; the Chain
- of Whispers project demonstrated that in spades as far as I was concerned.
-
-
- >. I personally hate music
- >which I can only hear. It iterates me that alot of these "New Age" artist
- don't
- >notate their music. Thus, I have to rely on my hear to understand how they
- >created the harmonies, counterpoint, etc.
-
- Biomass occurs. I personally hate music that is dry enough to go down
- on paper without losing anything. It irritates me that a lot of these
- "classical" artists insist on shackling everyone to a form of
- documentation that's out of date, and I CAN'T use my ears to hear what
- they're doing, but must rely on skills like sight-reading or
- sight-singing, admittedly useful but NOT where I want to spend my time
- practicing.
-
- >A musician makes Music, a composer CREATES Music.
-
- What does this statement have to do with people performing from a
- score or whatever? Are you implying that because composers
- traditionaly used pencil and paper to give their ideas to musicians to
- play, that real composers therefore only work with pencil and paper?
- Man, I hope not.
-
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