============John Sankey:
Performers need all the help we can get to translate
notation into music...
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Notation is translated into music only by the computer. Performers
*interpret* notation. Music is not a language, it is music. Notation is
a language which describes, however imperfectly, some of the qualities
of the music. If you build accents into the basic notation, how do you
adjust the time values to correspond to the new reality? If a note is
accented, it is played sooner. How do you adjust the time values of the
previous notes? Where are the barlines placed? Before *which* first
beat, the one with the greatest *degree* of accent?
You always have the option of putting an accented note on a separate
stem, and you should, if it is important. If you are constrained to put
it on one side or the other of the other stems on the same division of
the beat however, it may look very nasty even if handwritten.
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