Re: The MusicXML challenge and Chords

If content and layout are fused in certain kinds of music, are the needs of
these styles/genres better met with graphics programs than with notation
programs?

On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 10:33 AM, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz <
bathory@maltedmedia.com> wrote:

> On Mon, October 26, 2015 12:10 pm, Sienna Wood wrote:
> > In short, we should capture *content* data, not *layout* data.
>
> I had another extended discussion with some composers about this recently.
> In
> music for the past 60 years or so, layout and content are often fused.
>
> One of the greatest failings of notation programs has been their inability
> even to accommodate these needs, much less do them well. My hope for these
> new
> standards are that they would be truly contemporary -- including the past
> but
> not being imprisoned by it.
>
> Karlheinz Stockhausen, John Cage, George Crumb, Christian Wolff, Kristina
> Wolfe, John ZammitPace, and hundreds if not thousands of other composers
> use
> layout, graphical elements, frequency and tuning information, and even 3D
> elements (etc.) as an integral part of their syntax, bound to how the
> music is
> performed and understood. Starting points for emancipated, symbolic,
> time-based, graphical, etc., notation:
>
> Karkoschka: Notation in New Music
> Cage: Notations
> Möller/Shim/Stäbler: SoundVisions
> Sauer: Notations21
>
> Thanks,
> Dennis
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