Good thing we held off on the Esperanto translation of Finale! --- Justin Phillips Senior Product Manager MakeMusic, Inc.
On Apr 27, 2013, at 2:10 PM, "Dennis Bathory-Kitsz" <bath...@maltedmedia.com> wrote: > 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 > Finale@shsu.edu > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
