Re: simplifying chromatic scale notation

[David Kastrup]

musicus <address@hidden> writes:

> @Simon: I was not aware of Clairnote, but that direction was not my
> intention...
>
> @Kieren: I agree with you regarding reading...
> my point is that this notation could help to understand and remember
> the structure.
> Especially in modern/ contemporary music there are many cases with
> limited justification for complicated notation .
> "THIS is soo simple, why didn't the composer use an easy way to notate
> it, so that i don't have to put so much effort in reading and learning
> it??"
>
>
> Attached a short excerpt of Liszt's Mephisto waltz... Maybe you cannot
> play this without calculating a bit, but you definitily will get the
> anomaly of the line immediately.

I suggest you try this on "Entry of the Gladiators" by Fučik.  The lines
will look very straightforward, but I suspect performers, particularly
on "continuous" instruments like voice, theremin or trombone(?) would
lose track of the tonality exactly because of that.

-- 
David Kastrup