At 4/3/2006 01:55 PM, Andrew Stiller wrote: >> >> I agree that improvisation is not notatable. > >Somehow this false assumption got into the thread, and needs to be >expunged. > >While it is *arguable* that jazz improvisation cannot be notated (I >don't, myself, agree), it is unquestionable that products of the organ >improvisation tradition, in the style of Bach, Vierne, etc. are as >perfectly notatable as their models, since they obey the exact same >rhythmic and pitch constraints. > >There are quite a few pieces of keyboard music, violin solos, etc. in >the literature that started out as improvisations, but which the >creators then thought so much of that they wrote them down as fixed >compositions--so, clearly, they must have been notatable in the first >place!
I was agreeing with David, I thought, to jazz improvisation. But, I think you have made a good point. Phil Daley < AutoDesk > http://www.conknet.com/~p_daley _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
