Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site gitpyr.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!gatech!gitpyr!tynor From: tynor@gitpyr.UUCP (Steve Tynor) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: Musical Notation Message-ID: <568@gitpyr.UUCP> Date: Mon, 15-Jul-85 13:04:08 EDT Article-I.D.: gitpyr.568 Posted: Mon Jul 15 13:04:08 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 17-Jul-85 20:49:48 EDT References: <3021@decwrl.UUCP> <4623@mit-eddie.UUCP> Reply-To: tynor@gitpyr.UUCP (Steve Tynor) Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology Lines: 28 Summary: Doug Alan has repeatedly made the claim that ordinary musical notation is extremely limiting and that Kate Bush has eschewed it for that reason. Avant garde composers sometimes come up with wierd notations, but their music usually demands this (Cage, Xenakis,...) Though Kate's music is out of the ordinary, I don't hear anything that could not be written in standard notation. In fact, from the reviews I've read about her work, I've gathered that much of her music *is* scored traditionally (ie. string accomp). From what I know about the Fairlight CMI, it's sequencer uses conventional notation So why the claim that Kate Bush has gone beyond traditional notation? =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Many an aborigone's mistaken for a tree, 'till you near 'em on the motorway and the tree begins to breath... Steve Tynor Georgia Instutute of Technology ...{akgua, allegra, amd, harpo, hplabs, ihnp4, masscomp, ut-ngp, rlgvax, sb1, uf-cgrl, unmvax, ut-sally} !gatech!gitpyr!tynor -- Steve Tynor Georgia Insitute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332 ...!{akgua,allegra,amd,hplabs,ihnp4,masscomp,ut-ngp}!gatech!gitpyr!tynor