Frank Evil Grin Nordberg challenged "Can anybody come up with a clear and consise definition (in twenty words or less) of the difference between musically relevant and purely notational features?"
A difference between two pieces of notation is musically relevant if and only if it means they should sound different. (20 words) Thus writing in a different key and inserting accidentals to correct is not musically relevant. Writing something in bass clef rather than treble clef with many legers is not musically relevant. Putting guitar chords above the staff rather than below is not musically relevant. An instruction to play a note on fret 9 of the G string instead of the open E string is musically relevant. Laurie To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
