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From: nessus@mit-eddie.UUCP (Doug Alan)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Musical Notation
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Date: Sat, 13-Jul-85 00:33:33 EDT
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["Who's gonna win the war, boys?  Who's gonna win the war?"]

> From: jeffw@tekecs.UUCP (Jeff Winslow)

> A great variety (sic) of music has been written using this notation,
> so your notion that it is "extremely limiting" appears to be somewhat
> extreme on its own.

I never said that musical notation is useless -- only that is is
limiting.  Lots of good music can be denoted very well with musical
notation, but there is also lots and lots of good music for which
musical notation is nearly completely worthless, and where probably any
attempt to come up with written notation to describe it would be
completely futile.  In these cases, perhaps the only good dentation of
the music, is the recording itself.

			"This is the time
			 And this is the record of the time"

			 Doug Alan
			  nessus@mit-eddie.UUCP (or ARPA)