Maybe jazz will end up like this some day ... maybe
there will be a request for tempos of quarter note
equals 10,000 .
>Return-Path: <owner-finale@SHSU.edu>
>X-ListName: Finale Software Discussion List <Finale@SHSU.edu>
>Warnings-To: <>
>Errors-To: owner-finale@SHSU.edu
>Sender: owner-finale@SHSU.edu
>Date: Tue, 08 Jul 1997 10:12:11 -0700
>From: Phil Shaw <pshaw@sybase.com>
>Reply-To: Finale@SHSU.edu, pshaw@sybase.com
>To: Finale@SHSU.edu
>Subject: Re: TAN - set theory
>
>Reliance on hearing music (rather than theory and notation)
>isn't practicable for the more recent serial works, which
>are written for notes above 25K Hertz. Since you can't
>actually hear the notes, you can only appreciate such
>music by contemplating the notated score (which accounts
>for recent demands for markings such as "1000 x 8 va").
>In fact, such works are commonly "performed" by projecting
>slides of the score on a screen, due to technical limitations
>of current sound systems. There is even a recent (though
>controversial) trend to provide musical accompaniment for such
>performances---the recent album by the BeeGees having been
>a popular choice for such accompaniment.
>
Reed Kotler
http://www.reedkotler.com home of a nice unix like toolset for windows NT/95
http://www.justjazz.com home of a jazz musicians discussion list