On Sat, April 27, 2013 2:35 pm, Chuck Israels wrote: > And, for better or for worse, languages develop through consensus. They have > not been successfully invented. Esperanto, anyone? Even our frustrations > with "conventional" notation unite us.
That's pretty much true. Though Esperanto has quite a few "native" speakers -- not sure how they got that way! But it brings up a notation system that was invented -- the notation we use for sequencers, DAWs, etc. replicates the 1896 invention of the piano roll. Though it's been added to and turned on its side, it's still the basic component of sequenced notation ... and it, too, has 'native speakers' who read piano roll notation in DAWs but not standard music notation. Some years ago I had a composition student (in his 70s) who had written an entire, long, Romantic-style string quartet entirely in sequence notation. He hadn't played it in -- he had created and dragged the lines that represented notes over time, and added envelopes, etc., to indicate dynamics and expression. He read the notation fluently; I couldn't at all, since it used equally spaced pitches. Dennis _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
