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





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