drmatt wrote: > A better analogy is perhaps to ask you what you remember of the font > that was used in the last book you read. Nothing? Same thing. The medium > (carrier) vs the content (signal). A musician is interested in the > signal - the notes, the timing, the stressing of each portion of the > note, they are not interested in whether the violin sounds"realistic", > because they don't care. A professional musician can extract extremely > detailed transcription notes from poor recordings.
Hi Doc! I believe that Mozart transcribed an entire mass setting from memory after exiting the church where the music was performed (& jealously guarded) when he was about 12. But he was somewhat remarkable... My original question related to the rehearsal sessions held by conductors with their orchestras prior to an important concert (or recording, or both in the case of a live recording). Obviously each individual conductor will have his own "take" on a piece of classical music, which itself may evolve over time. It had nothing direct to do with recorded music per se, but rather I was trying to put comments about the brain's inability to recall specific sounds for more than a few seconds into the performance context. Are you suggesting that the members of the orchestra use the rehearsals to annotate their copies of the score, or that their skill with their instruments is down to some memory other than auditory recall, such as muscle memory, etc.? I think we're at bit at cross-purposes - sorry if I'm missing something obvious here, as I said I'm not a musician myself. I find playing Guitar Hero with the kids taxing enough (but fun - our family band is called "Muesli Is Murder"). Dave :) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Golden Earring's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=66646 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106914 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
