On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 02:39:19PM -0400, Chris Pickett wrote: > Michal Seta wrote: > >Well, I must be a different race of a classical musician. I have been > >trained as a classical musician and I've been trained to read the > >black dots with beams people call scores. However, a score is only a > >representation of music. The same music could be represented in > >different ways. As a guitarist I have learnt to play from a guitar > >score, piano score, lead sheet, modern guitar tablature and > >medieval/rennaissance tablature (of which there were 2 kinds). These > >are all valid representations of musical compositions and they all > >have strengths and weaknesses. Any piece of music (as long as it's > >within the traditional 12 tone equal temperament) can be represented > >using any of the above methods. So why not text? Entering textual > >representation of music and following certain _markup_ rules is not > >programming. If it were so, simply scoring should be considered > >programming, too. > > Yes, in my mind, "programming" requires the existance of conditions and > (possibly backward) branches. You mean like repeat signs, multiple endings for different times through a section, codas, DS al capo, etc, etc? -ERic Rz.
