Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mit-eddie.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!mit-eddie!nessus From: nessus@mit-eddie.UUCP (Doug Alan) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Musical Notation Message-ID: <4677@mit-eddie.UUCP> Date: Sat, 13-Jul-85 00:33:33 EDT Article-I.D.: mit-eddi.4677 Posted: Sat Jul 13 00:33:33 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 13-Jul-85 15:08:32 EDT References: <3021@decwrl.UUCP> <4623@mit-eddie.UUCP> Organization: MIT, Cambridge, MA Lines: 21 ["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)