On Fri, August 1, 2008 9:58 pm, Aaron Sherber wrote: > Obviously reasonable people will disagree about this. And I disagree > with your characterization that when writing by hand we entered > duration and pitch simultaneously. I would describe my thought > process as moving my pencil to a place on the staff (i.e., choosing a > pitch) and then writing a duration at that location. Duration and > then pitch just feels wrong to me. > > This is the same way I play music. I don't recognize the duration > first and then the pitch -- I see the pitch first, finding the > correct fingering, and then worry about the duration.
This is such a cool discussion. I had to think back on how I wrote before 1993 (since I almost do no writing on paper anymore). And perhaps that's why I'm a Speedy-only user today. Everything is a shape first -- the overall duration and harmonic shifts over time, the micro-shifts over time. But time dominates how my hand worked ... sure, pitches (in most cases), but the inter-note distance was already shaped out. Notes are notes, but placement in time really makes the music function for me. I do not use a piano-style keyboard. So when Finale with Speedy came along, it was perfect. Computer only, and mostly computer keyboard. (Still too much mouse usage at first, but I could get away from most of that.) Dennis _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
