Re: [Finale] Notational conventions in new and old music (previously: Do housestyles...).

2003-06-03 Thread Mark D. Lew
At 3:28 PM 06/02/03, David W. Fenton wrote: > [...] One should then make one's best effort at making a living, >breathing, natural-sounding performance out of it. > >But if one cannot accomplish that, then discard the historical >knowledge and make something that *does* live and breathe, historica

Re: [Finale] Notational conventions in new and old music (previously: Do housestyles...).

2003-06-01 Thread Mark D. Lew
At 11:40 PM 05/31/03, Michael Edwards wrote: [one small excerpt from a prodigious post] >Presumably you would have to write in "Play straight", and then, >later, "Play swung", when the straight passage ends, and so on. This seems a >bit inadequate to my way of thinking when you could use notatio