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Re: simplifying chromatic scale notation
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David Kastrup |
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Re: simplifying chromatic scale notation |
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Tue, 26 Jan 2016 01:34:42 +0100 |
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musicus <address@hidden> writes:
> @Simon: I was not aware of Clairnote, but that direction was not my
> intention...
>
> @Kieren: I agree with you regarding reading...
> my point is that this notation could help to understand and remember
> the structure.
> Especially in modern/ contemporary music there are many cases with
> limited justification for complicated notation .
> "THIS is soo simple, why didn't the composer use an easy way to notate
> it, so that i don't have to put so much effort in reading and learning
> it??"
>
>
> Attached a short excerpt of Liszt's Mephisto waltz... Maybe you cannot
> play this without calculating a bit, but you definitily will get the
> anomaly of the line immediately.
I suggest you try this on "Entry of the Gladiators" by Fučik. The lines
will look very straightforward, but I suspect performers, particularly
on "continuous" instruments like voice, theremin or trombone(?) would
lose track of the tonality exactly because of that.
--
David Kastrup
- Re: simplifying chromatic scale notation, (continued)
Re: simplifying chromatic scale notation, Chris Yate, 2016/01/26
Re: simplifying chromatic scale notation, Paul Morris, 2016/01/26
Re: simplifying chromatic scale notation, Kieren MacMillan, 2016/01/25
Re: simplifying chromatic scale notation, David Kastrup, 2016/01/25
Re: simplifying chromatic scale notation, Paul Morris, 2016/01/26
- Re: simplifying chromatic scale notation, Nathan Ho, 2016/01/26
- Re: simplifying chromatic scale notation, Chris Yate, 2016/01/26
- Re: simplifying chromatic scale notation, Paul Morris, 2016/01/26
- Re: simplifying chromatic scale notation, Urs Liska, 2016/01/26
- Re: simplifying chromatic scale notation, Kieren MacMillan, 2016/01/26
- Re: simplifying chromatic scale notation, David Kastrup, 2016/01/26
- Re: simplifying chromatic scale notation, Paul Morris, 2016/01/26