On 16 Apr 2005 at 15:28, Andrew Stiller wrote: > On Apr 15, 2005, at 3:59 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: > > > On 15 Apr 2005 at 10:12, Andrew Stiller wrote: > > > >> The 8bassa notation hasn't been traditional for a century and a > >> half. > > > > The cello arrangement of the Rachmaninoff Vocalise uses it, and that > > was unquestionably published less than 150 years ago, since the > > original work didn't exist 150 years ago. > > Certainly. But Rachmaninoff's use of the convention was by then no > more traditional than Hindemith's use of the viola d'amore.
First off, it's not Rachmaninoff's arrangement (it's by one of the famous cellists of the 1st half of the 20th century whose name escapes me at the moment). Secondly, I made a careful statement about *publications*, not about composers or compositions, which you have chosen to dispute with an assertion about compositional practice. Both our two positions are probably true since they are actual orthogonal to each other. -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
