On 15 Feb 2006 at 11:33, Owain Sutton wrote: > 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. . . .
Beethoven is not God. > . . . Are you really saying > there's only eight possible dynamic levels, at all, ever? Absolutely not. There's an infinite number of dynamic gradations. But there's no way to actually notate them all, so proliferating the dynamic markings at the extremes really doesn't accomplish anything useful, in my opinion, except of the "voodoo" variety, as exhibited in the Verdi example that Mark offered. -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
