I wrote:
I think it is more important in a score to try and convey the spirit
and style to musicians rather than bogging them down in minutia that
could ruin the outcome.
Noel Stoutenburg wrote:
<rant> I must say it seems to me that in the set of skills which
musicians are reasonably expected to acquire is the ability to read
the information in a score, and take to account in their use of the
score the expressions, articulations, dynamics, tempi, and other
directions and indications in the score so that they are not
"minutia"! [snip] ...I submit that any singer or instrumentalist who
does not know how to interpret the "minutia" of a score has given up
the right to call him- or herself a musician, as part of being a
musician is studying the score. </rant>
You can't call it a <rant> if you make a reasonable, well argued case!
I agree with you totally, but for a composer, there is a thing called
diminishing returns. Every composer is going to have to figure it out
for themselves where to draw the line. And for the record, I was
thinking of notations that are much more picky than the standard
expressions, dynamics, tempi, etc.
-Randolph Peters
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