At 09:15 AM 6/20/2007 -0400, dhbailey wrote:
>I'll bet that if you submitted that circular score to most
>human engravers, they also would be unable to engrave it. It is a
>graphic design issue, not a notation engraving issue.
They're integral. The separation is artificial and underscored by Finale's
"scroll" view. Music may be linear in its process through time, but scores
are graphical representations in multiple dimensions -- duration as x-axis,
pitch and orchestration as two different y-axes, expression and dynamics as
various z-axes, the dimension of pages (where page turns play a role), time
folded on itself with repeats or da capos, orchestration folded on itself
with doublings, the wandering x-axes of voices (Finale's differently name
"voices" and "layers"), protrusions from other dimensions with cues and
ossias, invisibility cloaks ("optimization" in Finale terms), non-musical
information (titles and page numbers and headers and footers), etc., etc.
Anyway, that circular Stockhausen was done by his team more than 45 years
ago...
(Yay! No lack of emails now!)
Dennis
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