On 1 Jun 2010 at 16:18, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: > On Tue, June 1, 2010 3:53 pm, David W. Fenton wrote: > > you'd be doing the music a favor in > > liberating it from notational restrictions imposed on it by the > > limitations of its creator. > > Perhaps one of the finest lines you have written, David. I want to put > it on my business card: "40 years of liberating music from notation > restrictions imposed on it by the limitations of its creator."
Thank you, thank you. I'll be here all week. Seriously, I meant it rather jokingly, but there's a serious issue there. As much as composers think they may understand everything that they've consciously put into the construction of their music, they may still not understand everything that's actually *there*. Certainly, the composer has a privileged position, and her opinions should be given great respect, but not at the expense of disregarding those of others. A composer who hasn't actually prepared a performance of one of her own works may miss things that are revealed to a performer in the process of learning the work and performing it. This is not to say that everything goes, just that one shouldn't be afraid as a performer to discard or alter what seems contradictory of the musical content. -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
