At 7/22/2005 12:37 PM, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: >A proper comparison, it seems to me, would include (as do performance >auditions) music from numerous genres. For me that might include a >comparison of settings of... >...a page of plainchant in appropriate fonts >...a page of Couperin complete with ornaments >...a page of a Bach cantata including figured bass >...the opening page of a tuplet-heavy Chopin prelude such as Op. 28 No. 8 >(complete with ossia) >...a snippet of gigunda pages from Gotterdammerung or Gurre Lieder or Sacre >...a page of big band arrangement of Lush Life or a section from Mingus's >Epitaph or Bley's Escalator >...a middle page of Stravinsky's Anthem: A Dove Descending >...part of Berio's Gesti or Cage's Music of Changes >...and the killer, Stockhausen's Nr. 11 Refrain (back cover of the original >edition of Gardner Read) > >What program could do them all, and do them well, time-effectively, and >produce a demo? (And I agree with Simon that a showcase might be more >effective than a competition.)
I agree that one person would not be familiar with all of these styles. Have people submit entries to whatever and how many categories they want to. I think it would be really interesting to see the results. Phil Daley < AutoDesk > http://www.conknet.com/~p_daley _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
