21 Dec
2005
21 Dec
'05
10:08 a.m.
On Wednesday 21 December 2005 13:08, Rob wrote:
On Wed December 21 2005 00:15, I. I. Ooisen wrote:
If you mean "notation in which to print out my own music".... I
don't need to. I can burn a CD.
If you mean "notation in which to manipulate notes within the
app".... as I said in another post, I think I'd like a
high-level, non-LISP-like programming language I could use to
code my songs. Lacking that, the commonly used piano roll
notation is certainly the most intuitive. (Yes, I did have
piano lessons as a kid and yes, I did learn how to read music.
Piano roll notation still makes more sense to me, especially
when I start transposing.)
If I were a band or orchestra leader, it'd be different... but
I'm not. I'm one guy with a bunch of instruments and a computer
that will record me playing all of them by ear.
Rob
you seem to think we don't need the traditional notation system anymore.
you also seem to think it is old and unnecessary in the computer era
(by your repeated reference to it being an eighteen century system).
and i think you feel quite subjective about it ("if i were a band...
leader i'd be different), as though you admit it's just your opinion.
well, i don't think so. i don't *think* you are right. i am absolutely
*sure* you are right. and i don't *feel* "subjective". i *am*
objective.
also, it is not a matter of personal opinion (like in "i am hungry,
imho"). it's a *fact*. we actually *have* evolved in the last two
centuries. and this is *obvious*.
so if you are interested in some sort of reformation of the traditional
musical notation system (which is clearly obsolete -- should i add
inhuman? -- and ignores that we live in the twenty-first century), then
you may consider the following link: http://www.mnma.org/
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I'm a
composer too, but the only time I generate a score is
when someone wants to play my stuff in real life. There's
no need for 18th century notation if you're doing it all
yourself in the digital realm.
is there any more modern musical notation system which you
think preferable? (i am seriously interested)