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Posted By: Gordon Scott How Sheet Music Lies To You - 04/04/22 10:04 AM
I like 12tone's descriptions of things.

How Sheet Music Lies To You

About how our musical notation is helpful, but also how and why it doesn't wholly work.
Posted By: Mark Hayes Re: How Sheet Music Lies To You - 04/04/22 10:17 AM
You could better nail things down by controlling human musicians with MIDI. I'm thinking of some kind of "crossover" notation, but also perhaps fun stuff like electrical stimulation to induce vibrato.
Posted By: AudioTrack Re: How Sheet Music Lies To You - 04/04/22 11:01 AM
Frankly, it's a good and well researched article. The caricatures are both interesting and sometimes distracting. And the high-speed delivery doesn't give one much time to absorb everything. Nevertheless, a good article.
Posted By: Gordon Scott Re: How Sheet Music Lies To You - 04/04/22 11:33 AM
Originally Posted By: AudioTrack
... the high-speed delivery doesn't give one much time to absorb everything.

I quite often resort to pause and/or step back an re-play. Sometimes like with 12tone where the delivery is rather express, sometimes with some other presenters because it's too slow or repetitious and I try to do something else whilst I'm waiting for them to get to the point.
I guess no delivery can ever be right all of the time.
Posted By: AudioTrack Re: How Sheet Music Lies To You - 04/04/22 11:47 AM
Agreed, I too pause and go back (many times more than once wink ). But this wasn't a criticism of the article's author. He had to talk fast to keep up with the speed of his sketches grin
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