At 09:54 PM 11/8/02 -0500, David H. Bailey wrote: >I am growing weary of composers who can't write!
Do you really want to go here? :) Composers who don't write is a longer tradition than those who do. Writing/notating for communication is a technical skill that is variously used in different disciplines (more in word forms, less in dance forms), and jobs such as Crystal has are commonplace because writing is truly a secondary skill, and notation secondary to that. In some composition -- especially improvisatory or collaborative forms in jazz and pop respectively -- writing is destructive to the process, and mostly done by transcription after the composition is long finished. If notation were required for the 'serious' composers among us, the who field of electroacoustics the early 1950s would be washed away. Being a transcriber is usually no fun, and those who have adopted technological tools like Midi files have often made it harder for the transcribers -- while making it easier for themselves to work. I don't enjoy doing transcription of 'composers who can't write', but they are no less valid and valuable (and far more numerous, and with a longer history) than those who can. I don't think it's helpful to confuse the actual music with its translation into a notational system. Dennis _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
