[RANT] I believe that it was Gardner Read who raked Swedish composer Bo Nilsson over the coals several times for--among other things--indicating the same kind of ultra-fine gradations of dynamics. In this case: 1. It is doubtful that the composer could hear such gradations and that even the most skilled performer could produce them (every note was assigned a dynamic from 0.5 to 10.0 in 0.5 increments, thus 20 gradations) AND 2. He wrote this rubbish for an instrument utterly incapable of producing such fine gradation. While David labels it "voodoo notation," I'd agree and also call it "spurious accuracy" or, perhaps better, "I'm a more sensitive and intellectual composer than you are because I'm so beyond ppp to fff that I can create 20 dynamic gradations. Look at MEEEEEE!!!" I'll look later and post a few more of Nilsson's absurdities that Read brought to light. [/RANT] Jim W.
________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Owain Sutton Sent: Wed 15-Feb-06 6:33 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Finale] 8th = Q David W. Fenton wrote: > > Well, let me say that anything other than ppp to fff is ridiculous -- > there's no possible way to actually make such gradations in any > meaningful sense. Anything beyond that range is voodoo notation, in > my opinion. > What on earth is 'voodoo notation'? Because according to your logic, it's something Beethoven was quite happy with. Are you really saying there's only eight possible dynamic levels, at all, ever? _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
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