Re: Pitches rewrite draft

[Trevor Bača]

On 10/1/07, Eyolf Østrem <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 01.10.2007 (16:16), Trevor Daniels wrote:
> > Some comments on Pitches
> > > - move Micro tones into Accidentals.
> >
> > No, too specialist.  Should it be moved into Specialist
> > notation? Wherever it is it needs a link to Other languages.
>
> I say yes, in accordance with the general principle that everything
> that belongs together, should be together, no matter how advanced or
> basic it is.
> Also, the "specialist notation" section is for "specialized
> areas of use" (guitar, piano, ancient, etc) rather than "very advanced
> features that only 20th-c. music freaks will ever need" :-)
>
> BTW, I've been thinking about that title... I was trying to find the
> section on vocal music, which ought to be easy enough, but it took me
> a while to find it there, even though I knew it was there. I didn't
> think of it as "specialist" in any way. I think "specialized notation"
> would make it a little better, but I'm not sure.

FWIW, I'm not a fan of the specialist / nonspecialist distinction. All
notation is specialist ... until you realize that you need it ... and
then it suddenly becomes very ordinary. So I would put microtones
right alongside the other accidentals.

(So I vote with Eyolf.)



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Trevor Bača
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