Michael Thames <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Posner, > In the context of what Ness is saying, and all his previous emails trying to establish pitch notation as superior to tablature, for lutenists
?!? I havent read that in Arthurs posts. Tablature and staff notations record the music using different abstractions, each has its advantages, each its disadvantages; to y mind there is no objective criteria to decide which is superior to the other in any general sense; one can however make a reasoned choice in particular situations. A player should be conversant with both, however, tablature is proven far easier to teach to the musically naive, and even for the musically literate it can be easier to learn to read for a plucked instrument from tablature than staff. One is then only challenged to have a supply of music in tablature to work with. The facts suporting all sides of this issue are well known to all of us, perhaps remaining rehash of them could be left as [silent] excercise? To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
