Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Alternative Music Notation
When given this assignment, I sat for awhile thinking about a way to notate music differently and make it easier to read, learn, and play. I thought of using numbers or letters originally, but I felt that it was too similar to the way it is currently. I sat for awhile longer and thought, and I think that using colors for the brass instruments might work the best. Assigning the three primary colors to each valve and then notating it on either standard sheet music or going high tech and having it on a screen seems to me to be a relatively easy and effective way of notating music. As for instruments like flutes or clarinets, I think that a color system would be too complex, so I would think that maybe doing letters and numbers could potentially work, but making it easy to read could pose some big problems for those that have to play the instruments.
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That is an interesting solution for brass instruments--although each valve (or combination of valves) can produce other pitches because of harmonics. How would you notate those?
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