[Antonio PALAMA'] > [...] a properly encoded midifile contains more information than a > printed score. A printed score contains all the information necessary > to a musician to play the music. A midi file contains the actual > performance of the musician.
A score encodes a musical intent, while a MIDI file encodes a performance. The author intent, expressed in a score, is a precious source of indications, out of which musicians may deliver myriads of different _and_ interesting renderings. This is extremely rich. No doubt that a particular performance may contain a lot of information. You may go way further than MIDI, which is so fuzzy if you consider all MIDI synthesizers around, and encode 44100 positions of the speaker membrane for each second of the play. But then, we are far away from the author intent, and in fact, one may not fully recover nor induce the original author intent from a particular rendering. The amount of raw information does not matter so much here. But the amount of genuine musical information does. And going from a score to MIDI, we surely gain a lot of raw information, but on average, we loose part of that genuine musical information designed by the composer. P.S. - I also agree that some musicians prefer to perform (or improvise) than to formalize their intent, or just do not have enough courage or introspection abilities to do such formalization. They might produce quite interesting music nevertheless. In such cases, granted, MIDI is better than nothing at all. -- François Pinard http://pinard.progiciels-bpi.ca _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user