Was it the classical period...? Music was never fully written out as it is today. You were given the basic melody and the chord structure... Somewhere along the line things were "dumbed down"... Victor
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 01:58, Anthony Robb <[1][email protected]> wrote: It would be weird if that's what our music is about. The essence of this music, however, is that we hear the "stories", learn them, make them our own and reproduce them, not verbatim, but slightly differently as mood and memory serves. They have to become part of us; not something external interpreted from marks on a page. Once they are inside us it is very natural to share them with others. As aye Anthony --- On Tue, 1/12/09, [2][email protected] <[3][email protected]> wrote: From: [4][email protected] <[5][email protected]> Subject: [NSP] Re: From notation to music To: [6][email protected], [7][email protected] Date: Tuesday, 1 December, 2009, 0:38 But remembering the words of a speech, writing them down verbatim, then being unable to remember them again without reading the transcript is plain weird.... -- To get on or off this list see list information at [1][8]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- References 1. [9]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- References 1. mailto:[email protected] 2. mailto:[email protected] 3. mailto:[email protected] 4. mailto:[email protected] 5. mailto:[email protected] 6. mailto:[email protected] 7. mailto:[email protected] 8. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/%7Ewbc/lute-admin/index.html 9. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/%7Ewbc/lute-admin/index.html
