Timeline for Why the real book and original recordings sound a lot different?
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| Jan 6, 2021 at 14:30 | comment | added | Scott Wallace | I guess I should add, to be historically correct, that by "beginnings of musical notation in the West" I mean the neumatic notation, which gradually evolved into our modern notation. There were earlier forms of notation, for instance the Greek symbols indicating steps of the scale, which died out. | |
| Jan 6, 2021 at 13:21 | comment | added | Scott Wallace | Indeed. It might be noted (hehe) that the beginnings of musical notation in the West were derived from cheironomy, the use of hand gestures to indicate where a melody went up and down, and were only intended as a pons asinorum or mnemonic: an aid to the memory, not an attempt to convey all the information necessary to perform the piece. The evolution of notation over the centuries gradually added more and more information, but the idea that written music should make it possible for one who doesn't know a piece to reconstruct it completely is a very modern one, and arguably not possible. | |
| Jan 6, 2021 at 13:16 | history | edited | Tim | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 6, 2021 at 12:53 | comment | added | user50691 | This is the best advice. The fact that the author knows it doesn't sound right indicates that they've heard it. | |
| Jan 6, 2021 at 12:35 | history | answered | Tim | CC BY-SA 4.0 |