Re: Faerie's aire and death waltz
From: Christopher Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I didn't see anything there that was impossible in Finale, though it
would take a day or more, I would think. Jef chipewa certainly could
do it! (you can mail me my cheque for the free publicity, jef!) 8-)
For me, the ultimate transcendental etude for music notation has always
been Cornelius Cardew's Treatise, wh. unlike the item under discussion
is meant perfectly seriously.
P. 183, the climax, features stems that turn into staff lines, curved
staves, staves with lines that go out of parallel, upside down and/or
backwards clefs, backward flats, accents attached to stems, inverted
mordents included in the middle of beams, etc. etc. Other pages feature
feathered staff lines, freehand (wiggly) staff lines, noteheads with
cutout white spaces--in short, virtually every kind of musical graphic
imaginable. All this could be done w. Finale, I suppose, but it would
doubtless be quicker with a straightforward graphics
program--especially since most of the shapes required are circles,
ellipses, straight lines, and boxes.
There is a surprisingly large amount about this piece online, mostly
devoted to the question of how to perform it. See especially the
excellent discussion at
http://www.blockmuseum.northwestern.edu/picturesofmusic/pages/anim.html
Andrew Stiller
Kallisti Music Press
http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/
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