>At 09:54 PM 11/8/02 -0500, David H. Bailey wrote: >>I am growing weary of composers who can't write! >
Dennis Bathory-Kitsz answered: >Do you really want to go here? :) > >Composers who don't write is a longer tradition than those who do. [...] > >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. Dennis raises excellent points. However, jazz, non-jazz improv, electronic/tape music, etc. presuppose that the person doing the creating is the person doing the performing. Entirely proper when that's the case. But notation was developed in order to transmit a musical plan from the creator to other individuals without having to travel there and re-teach the music by ear. (See Guido d'Arezzo, "Micrologus," eary 11th century.) Someone who is musically illiterate does not belong in a collaborative situation where others, outside the immediate in-group, need to understand what is intended. So while Dennis is correct, David is also. There's nothing wrong with a Broadway composer expecting a subcontractor to do his orchestrations. There's something definitely wrong with a "composer" who can't communicate his intentions to either an orchestrator or an engraver. John John & Susie Howell Virginia Tech Department of Music Blacksburg, Virginia, U.S.A. 24061-0240 Vox (540) 231-8411 Fax (540) 231-5034 (mailto:John.Howell@;vt.edu) http://www.music.vt.edu/faculty/howell/howell.html _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
