[Mark D. Lew:]
>At 2:12 AM 05/30/03, Michael Edwards wrote:
>
>>Careful notation is, to me, so much a part of the total
>>compositional process (although not necessarily a very early part of it) that
>>I just took it for granted that other composers would feel similarly. My
>>musical background is thoroughly classical, with a good grounding in theory,
>>so I take proper notation for granted, as much as good writers take proper
>>spelling and grammar for granted.
>
>Of the two composers I had in mind, one is not well educated in classical
>music, though he is eager to learn. The other has a very strong classical
>background, and she could notate all her music "properly" if she cared to
>take the trouble. But she is not a visual-minded person.
Difference of viewpoint, I suppose. I sometimes suspect I am more
visual-minded than auditory-minded. For instance, I far prefer to read articles
or other text for myself than to hear someone read it out, and find it more
difficult to concentrate on the latter. If I listen to someone read something
else, I either look at the text and follow it as they read it out, or, if that
would be impolite, I have to restrain myself from doing so. I prefer to listen
to music with a score in front of me than without.
Perhaps, if I am more visually-oriented, this is one reason I have not
reached greater heights in music than in fact I have.
>For her, music is
>all about the sound; the written score is not the music at all, but only
>the written record of it,
Well, of course the sound is the music, not the written score. But I
regard the score as the main, and most reliable, means of recreating the music,
and I give it importance for that reason.
Do people like this composer you mention regard it as less important,
somehow? In that case, what do they regard as the main way of recreating a
performance? Or are they just less particular about how a performance is
recreated?
As it happens, my reply to David Fenton, in progress, touches on this
general issue more, so I will leave it at that for now.
>and the only reason to write it down at all is so
>that the other players will know how to play it.
Seems like a pretty important reason to me.
The *only* reason? What other reason could there be?
Regards,
Michael Edwards.
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