On 15 Apr 2005, at 5:55 AM, dhbailey wrote:
Darcy James Argue wrote:
To use a real-life example (albeit one involving a different instrument), lots of bluegrass fiddle players don't read any kind of music notation at all, but are nonetheless more capable than most of writing idiomatically for the violin.
Actually they may be more capable than most of creating music which is idiomatic for the violin, but if they "don't read music notation at all" they can hardly "write" for it, can they?
Are you saying you make a distinction between composing music and "writing" music?
A composition doesn't have to be written down -- or even be capable of being rendered in any kind of notation at all -- for it to be a great piece.
If our bluegrass fiddle player hires me to transcribe and notate a piece he has written and recorded, did I "write" the piece? [Of course not -- they did.]
- Darcy ----- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brooklyn, NY
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