Hummingbird – A fresh take on music notation

Re:Hummingbird – A fresh take on music notation by silencio on Wednesday April 10, 2013 @09:08PM (#5529286)

No matter what people come up with and who the target audience is, there needs to be a good bridge between the traditional and the new. Staff or not, great for beginners or not, this will only fail because of the total lack of sheet music and other materials with nothing in sight to automate the translation of even a limited subset of music and materials.

(Of course, caveat, I've been playing piano for 20+ years as a hobby. Maybe the ties to the traditional are really not a big deal.)

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Re:Hummingbird – A fresh take on music notation by shardling on Wednesday April 10, 2013 @11:05PM (#5529736)

I certainly hope that in the near future, digital transcriptions are easy enough to come by that you could effectively just change the font from one notation to another.

I know there are a lot of judgement calls in typesetting music, but that's true of text too, and we have some pretty good algorithms for doing so these days.

All that said, I have a lot of reservations about this particular notation, but I think there's certainly room for improvement even inside the current system. Letting the back catalog of work hold notation back isn't healthy.

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Re:Hummingbird – A fresh take on music notation by PeterisP on Thursday April 11, 2013 @04:13AM (#5530628)

The whole point of any new, better musical notation is avoiding the need to deeply understand the current traditional notation.

It is enough if machines can translate the existing sheet music to the new system.

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