Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] Note typesetting for Linux
From: Chris Pickett (chris.pickett_AT_mail.mcgill.ca)
Date: Fri Jul 09 2004 - 21:39:19 EEST
Michal Seta wrote:
> Well, I must be a different race of a classical musician. I have been
> trained as a classical musician and I've been trained to read the
> black dots with beams people call scores. However, a score is only a
> representation of music. The same music could be represented in
> different ways. As a guitarist I have learnt to play from a guitar
> score, piano score, lead sheet, modern guitar tablature and
> medieval/rennaissance tablature (of which there were 2 kinds). These
> are all valid representations of musical compositions and they all
> have strengths and weaknesses. Any piece of music (as long as it's
> within the traditional 12 tone equal temperament) can be represented
> using any of the above methods. So why not text? Entering textual
> representation of music and following certain _markup_ rules is not
> programming. If it were so, simply scoring should be considered
> programming, too.
Yes, in my mind, "programming" requires the existance of conditions and
(possibly backward) branches.
Chris
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