Re:Experimental music notation resources (2015)
by wolfram74 on Sunday May 27, 2018 @04:09PM
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But it's fairly fitting since musical notation is /supposed/ to be instructions for making a machine behave in a certain way. It's an early example of write-once-run-everywhere since the sheet music is relatively unchanged from instrument to instrument.
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Re:Experimental music notation resources (2015)
by TheOtherHobbes on Monday May 28, 2018 @06:49PM
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Sheet music contains instructions for making human musicians behave a certain way. There is no sense in which it's a complete description of a musical performance. Timing variations and dynamics are all controlled by the player.
If the score is figured bass, the player will improvise/create a complete accompaniment from a sketch of the bass line and some hints about the harmony.
And it's not necessarily unchanged. The layout of a piano score and a transposed brass line are only distantly related. The notation will be common, more or less, with the limitation that a horn line is monophonic while a piano can play chords.
But the key won't be the same, which means the pitches won't be the same. And many of the expressive markings will be different too.