> A score is a recipe for performing the piece. This assumption does seem to lead to your outrage.
> Specifying a metronome marking of 60.75 would be like specifying > 1.00456 teaspoons of sugar in a recipe -- not something to be taken > at all seriously.... Good analogy, and yet you are the one that is the most serious about it rather than being amused, puzzled, intrigued, or entertained. >....and not something that accomplishes anything in > regard to enhancing the results. You are insisting that you know what result is intended. You are probably wrong. > I get angry when people defend such blatantly > obvious stupidity. I don't know that I am defending it as much as suggesting that the purpose of the marking may be (almost certainly is) intended in a broader context than a literal, concrete reading. Maybe a better analogy would be someone looking at an Impressionist painting and saying, "If he wanted me to see a person he shouldn't have made it all blurry, goddammit!" Richard Yates _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
