At 8:58 PM -0400 5/31/09, Aaron Sherber wrote:
On 5/31/2009 8:43 PM, John Howell wrote:
I fully realize that different people have different ways of working,
but I find this particular argument (duration before pitch or pitch
before duration) rather amusing. In hand copying (remember doing
THAT, anyone?!!), you do both simultaneously, placing a note on a
line or space and making it black or white, and then finish up the
details.
But in hand copying you *don't* do both simultaneously. You first
move your hand to the right position on the staff, and then you put
a specific kind of note there. There's no other way to do it in hand
copying -- you can't draw a note of a specific duration until you
have first decided what the pitch is going to be.
Hi, Aaron. Not meaning to be picky, but you're breaking a single
integrated action up into two distinct actions (which is what Finale,
Sibelius, and Mosaic all do). When I move my hand I already know
both the pitch and the duration I'm going to write, so it's a single
"mental" action, and that single action encompasses note placement,
note shape, and note color. The computer only knows one thing at a
time.
John
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Virginia Tech Department of Music
College of Liberal Arts & Human Sciences
Blacksburg, Virginia, U.S.A. 24061-0240
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of jazz musicians.
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