At 02:14 PM 6/24/06 -0400, John Howell wrote: >And let's not forget that the development of non-traditional >notations in the 20th century was driven by one and only one >non-musical requirement: music could not be copyrighted unless it >could be represented on paper. Since it WAS necessary, composers >developed those notations, but except for that copyright requirement >those composers might have dropped notation entirely as being too >inexact for what they wanted to express.
Where did you ever come up with that? I have never in my life heard that theory, and have never known a composer who has said that was the reason they have added to the symbolic vocabulary. Was this somebody's PhD thesis? :) Dennis _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale