Re: what about simplifying music notation?

[Marc Weber]

Excerpts from David Kastrup's message of Mon Mar 14 16:58:39 +0000 2011:
> You'll find that at the end of the day, they sit down at a keyboard
> rather than just letting intervals play by numbers in their head.
 
*g*. I agree. The goal in all cases is: read a stream of music from
paper, hear it in your head before playing it on any instrument.

I'd expect that you can reach this state faster if notes are represented
more logical. However I don't have an empirical proof yet.

quarter tones? They are seldomly used in Germany. .5 .. why not?

Marc Weber