Everyone knows mathematicians can't do arithmetic! But I'll pretend it was a typo...
John -----Original Message----- From: lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu [mailto:lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu] On Behalf Of Matt Seattle Sent: 04 November 2009 11:24 To: gibbonssoi...@aol.com Cc: nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu Subject: [NSP] Re: schei greiss "Notereader makes Hornpipes sound fairly good in 21/16, with dotted and undotted quavers alternating." Do you mean 20/16, John? Any system of notation relies on a culture which knows how that particular music is played, just as any written language relies on people knowing how to pronounce it (greiss / grace etc.). The problems Anthony highlights are well known - use dots if you know how the music sounds, otherwise they are a hindrance. Ancedote, half-remembered: an arranger scored out a trumpet part for Miles Davis with a serious attempt at imitating what he understood of the nuanced rubato of Miles' phrasing - Miles said, I can't read this, man, write it straight, I'll phrase it. -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
