Pianojacq, an easy way to learn to play the piano

Re:Pianojacq, an easy way to learn to play the piano by zodiac on Friday October 16, 2020 @07:08PM (#24805878)

> Certainly the idea that a score somehow has more information in it than a midi recording is ridiculous

A midi file is designed to contain different kinds of information than a score, so it can absolutely contain less information (of a certain kind) than a score.

Imagine a group of notes that are attacked very close together in time in a midi file - is it meant to be a chord played without arpeggiation? A chord arpeggiated as fast as possible? A chord arpeggiated to a specific tempo?

When a composer writes (say) a chord with an arpeggiation sign next to it, it specifies that the notes are to be played in a certain order, and quickly. There are multiple possible performances that comply with this "specification". MIDI cannot encode this information (the information being the set of acceptable performances).

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Re:Pianojacq, an easy way to learn to play the piano by hsitz on Saturday October 17, 2020 @02:10AM (#24807798)

Thanks, yes, I would agree that a midi recording and a score to a large extent encode different types of information. The score has less of some of the kinds of information that are in fact present in midi. And the midi, of course, doesn't specify anything about ranges of interpretation; it simply represents a specific interpretation of a score.

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Re:Pianojacq, an easy way to learn to play the piano by jacquesm on Saturday October 17, 2020 @09:56AM (#24809994)

Midi note code 61: is that a C# or a Db, you pick...

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