Re: Pömmelchen

Hi Alex,

I do anticipate a "high abstraction approach" emerging within this group and I look forward to working on it. I'm afraid that your particular way of doing that is not clear to me so it's hard to critique it. The example you provided is perhaps not as self explanatory as you think. 

What I do see is that you are trying to extend some of the ideas in the CWMN part of MNX (designed as a low abstraction, idiom-specific approach) into more general territory. My sense is that this  kind of thing is doomed to disappoint everyone. Such a system will not be general enough to encode notation that is far more different from CWMN than your examples. At the same time, it will be too complicated and abstract to encode CWMN cleanly.

I urge you to hold on to these thoughts and bring them up again when we are talking about a more general purpose approach to notation. Which is not to silence this discussion, just to say where I think these kinds of examples will shine the brightest. 

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> On Apr 4, 2017, at 3:48 PM, notenlektorat <post@notenlektorat.de> wrote:
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> I just have to nip this in the bud before it gets terribly out of hand, so for the record:
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> 1) I am indeed convinced that the Pömmelchen score is comprehensively encodable, provided that MNX would take the high-abstraction approach that I have sketched out in the Ligeti example.
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> 2) But: this little piece certainly is not my benchmark for the whole endeavour. I did include the link to the score to add some levity at the end of a very dry email. I did, however, underestimate adorable Pömmelchen's inevitable tendency to capture everyone's imagination, something that might now start backfiring by people paying more attention to him than to what was actually supposed to be my contribution to the discussion.
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> So please, "Awww!" where "Awww!" is due, but then forget the bug for now.
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> Alex