Question: If all lute tab publishing is standardized to one specific variety, based on some overarching consensus, what happens to the art of reading the other varieties? Won't we be setting ourselves up to become so wedded to one variety of TAB that there won't be anyone left in two generations (other, maybe, than doddering nonogenarians) who can manage transcription from other kinds of Tab?
I'll admit that I'd like french-style baroque tab with a little less flourish and confusion. But if I don't ever bother to learn to read it, I won't be able to do anything with manuscripts. I, for one, don't want that lost. ray On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 11:51 AM, Sean Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Well, there you go. I can appreciate that. See, choice is good. > > That's if we are designing a program for our personal use. To design a > standard for what we'd like to see from the published/outside, on-paper > world gets more difficult. > > It may come about that tabs eventually get published in digital format. If > we had our machines ready and could open the file to change it to our > preference we'd be good to go. > > Maybe the lute societies and webpagers could tell us more about how they > distribute music on the web and what feedback they get from their > constituents. > > > my 2.1 cents > Sean > > > On Dec 8, 2008, at 8:24 AM, William Brohinsky wrote: > >> I think, maybe, we can skip the prejudicial ad-hominem remarks. >> >> I try to play from all kinds of tablature, and frankly, I find the >> in-the-line notation hardest. And, as my age increases (which can be >> said of all of us on this list: if you've figured a way to get younger >> as time progresses, please contact me 8^) it only gets more >> pronounced. >> >> That said, when the lines are too close together, between-lines is >> harder to read than on-lines. >> >> There are way too many variables for anyone to get too didactic, really! >> >> ray >> >> On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 11:18 AM, G. Crona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> If you actually tried to play from it, I believe that you'd get my point. >>> >>> G. >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Spring, aus dem, Rainer" >>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> To: <Lute@cs.dartmouth.edu> >>> Sent: Monday, December 08, 2008 4:51 PM >>> Subject: [LUTE] Re: tablature notation guidelines >>> >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: G. Crona [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> Sent: Monday, December 08, 2008 4:34 PM >>> To: Lute@cs.dartmouth.edu >>> Subject: [LUTE] Re: tablature notation guidelines >>> >>> Yeah! >>> >>>> But jokes aside, if one would actually take a look at, and play from >>>> tablature on the lines, one could easily see what I'm trying to say. The >>>> arguement >that its easy(er) to read should hold ground quite nicely! >>> >>> Not at all. And I can't see any reason why it should. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Best wishes, >>> >>> Rainer aus dem Spring >>> >>> >>> >>> To get on or off this list see list information at >>> http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html >>> >> >> > > >
