On 13 Dec 2010 at 17:30, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: > The diamond notation for harmonics > calls for a specific physical action -- that's different from almost > any other kind of standard notation, which is metaphorical by telling > what it should sound like, not how to accomplish it.
Yes -- it's a kind of tablature. I could never play from keyboard tablature if you paid me to learn it. My mind just doesn't work that way! Scordatura on my viol would drive me bananas. When I play bass, I've very often tuned the bottom string down a step to cello C (because the music we were playing assumed instruments that could play that note), and the idea that I'd do that, but the notated pitches would be the fingerings if the bottoms string were tuned to the normal D would just make my head explode. I haven't the slightest difficulty figuring out which pitches are which on the bottom string, and shifting accordingly. But then, I'm a keyboard player, so maybe it has something to do with thinking harmonically instead of linearly. -- 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
