Re: midi2ly

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I essentially agree with you in the fact that a printed score is a more
synthetic representation of the musician's intention than a midifile or a
recording of an actual performance.
Nevertheless the process of converting a particular rendering to a printed score
is possible; it is an art itself and is called transcription.
There are also cases in which the author himself published both a printed score
and a midi rendering of the music.
This is the case of Gershwin's Rapsody in Blue which was published both as a
printed score and as a piano roll (the midi file of that time); the piano roll
was cut and edited by the author. There is no doubt that Gershwin tryed to
convey his musical intent through both media but he had to use different
languages (the printed symbols in the first case, note numbers, times and
velocities in the second).

Thanks for the intersting discussion.

Antonio Palamà

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>From      : "François Pinard" address@hidden
To          : "Antonio PALAMA'" address@hidden
Cc          : address@hidden,"Mats Bengtsson"
address@hidden,address@hidden
Date      : Tue, 12 Apr 2005 18:37:22 -0400
Subject : Re: midi2ly

> [Antonio PALAMA']
>
> > [...] a properly encoded midifile contains more information than a
> > printed score.  A printed score contains all the information necessary
> > to a musician to play the music.  A midi file contains the actual
> > performance of the musician.
>
> A score encodes a musical intent, while a MIDI file encodes a
> performance.  The author intent, expressed in a score, is a precious
> source of indications, out of which musicians may deliver myriads of
> different _and_ interesting renderings.  This is extremely rich.
>
> No doubt that a particular performance may contain a lot of information.
> You may go way further than MIDI, which is so fuzzy if you consider all
> MIDI synthesizers around, and encode 44100 positions of the speaker
> membrane for each second of the play.  But then, we are far away from
> the author intent, and in fact, one may not fully recover nor induce the
> original author intent from a particular rendering.
>
> The amount of raw information does not matter so much here.  But the
> amount of genuine musical information does.  And going from a score to
> MIDI, we surely gain a lot of raw information, but on average, we loose
> part of that genuine musical information designed by the composer.
>
>
> P.S. - I also agree that some musicians prefer to perform (or improvise)
> than to formalize their intent, or just do not have enough courage or
> introspection abilities to do such formalization.  They might produce
> quite interesting music nevertheless.  In such cases, granted, MIDI is
> better than nothing at all.
>
> --
> François Pinard   http://pinard.progiciels-bpi.ca
> 



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