Re: what about simplifying music notation?

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On Mon, March 14, 2011 6:02 pm, Bernardo Barros wrote:
> 2011/3/14 Marc Weber <address@hidden>:
>> Second: You're wrong. By giving pitches numbers you'll naturally feel
>> than the distance 2-5 is the same as 8-11 and 27-30 and 45-48.
>
> And how would you represent quarter-tones? 5.5? And other kinds of
> tonal inflections?
>

That's how software like Pure Data deals with it..
As a composer working often with algorythms, number for notes feels
'natural' for me, but i'm afraid it would be hard to convince musicians to
read from them.

one line per note otoh, doesn't seem such a strange system to me. people
who work in 'piano roll' view in sequencers are used to think this way..
i've seen people who 'can't read notes' intuitively create melodies this
way in no time..

cheers,

Kristof

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