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Originally posted by alaskafiddlerIt's not about if notated correctly...
Rather that is written symbol -
what is "music" is what actually hear.
So goes into the issues involving that.
In my case, without the dots, I would only have other people's performances available to me for music.
Very illuminating. It clarified my perspective a bit on the never-ending dots vs. by-ear discussions, although he was addressing the rather larger subject of what notation does well and does poorly. The main goal of any notation is communication. I found his subdivision of musical elements into fixed and unfixed elements to be relevant specifically to the discussion of playing by ear in that playing by ear allows the player to make music with far fewer fixed elements and that it's the context of the user's need that determines which is appropriate.
Phew!! That is a pretty intense video. Since I write fiddle tune transcriptions it was interesting to me, if a bit rapid-fire. Stylistically, I expect anyone who reads my transcription sees it through the lens of which style the tune is representing. I think it's relatively easy for those of us used to Bluegrass, Old Time and Irish styles because we have an understanding of the framework of those styles. Familiarity with a style is key (sure, pun intended, this time). Finding the balance between representing too much or too little information in a transcription is always a goal for me.
Thanks.
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