On Apr 7, 2006, at 12:38 PM, Phil Daley wrote:
My question is, could you have notated a part for Professors Higgins,
such that, a performer unaware of previous performances, could have
replicated that part?
Short answer, yes.
The score of My Fair Lady has parts (not all) of HIggins' songs written
out in unpitched notation ("Why Can't Woman Be Like A Man" "Let A
Woman In Your Life"). Also, check out Menotti, many parts of many
operas, operettas, and vocal works. It IS doable. How much of the
inflection would be exactly replicable is up for discussion, but that
is the case with just about ANY music. You don't seem to have a point
here.
And, here is a question for notaters in general:
If rap is music. How many of you would be interested in notating it?
Once again, you seem to have a singular knack for non-sequiturs.
I've notated rap a number of times. I don't manage to get down all the
inflections, but that wasn't the point. The point of it WAS to get it
down in a way that it could be studied and performed, perhaps not
exactly as the original performer did it, but in a stylistically
appropriate way, just as students of jazz sometimes perform
transcriptions of improvisations and wedding bands perform covers of
popular tunes.
I have notated both the bed tracks and the vocals, and neither one was
any more difficult than any other pop music transcription I've done,
and considerably easier than a lot of jazz transcriptions.
But what does our interest in notating it have to do with anything? I
wrote it down because I had to, like a lot of what I do, not because I
was particularly interested in it. The fact that is WAS notatable is
not germane to any real definition of music, either. I have transcribed
lots of things that were not music, like speeches and poems; the mere
fact that I was able to notate them does not make them music.
Christopher
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