Your kids will be able to take that music and play it. Rounding back to the opening point, write a piece in notation (using whatever you want, photo of chalk on a cave wall, paper/pencil or printed out from Dorico) and stick it in a drawer. Now you can use musical terms here, but that’s just a shorthand for the primary source, and it still maps to whatever (you could map a short to a long).

and it means whatever you want it to mean and map to whatever you want, but doesn’t help the next person who might look at your map. Or if it’s NotePerformer, which mixes all of the data up into an algorithm which does a good job of sounding like what you want.Īnd Expressions can be whatever you want too obviously. And what does Velocity of 50 mean? It’s patch dependent for one thhing, legato patches ignore it (generally, there’s no rules here) but short patches (usually) pay attention to it. Invented for keyboard instruments, but as a wind player that means nothing to me. Doesn’t even make sense some of the time - take velocity. MIDI obviously was invented as an electronic way to encode musical performance data. It’s a wonderful illustration of the principle that louder and faster is not better, and the benefit of artistic maturity.Īnyhow, MIDI and expression maps aren’t the same as this. They don’t even sound like the same person. It contains both the original Goldberg recording from when he was 20 or whatever, and a recent interpretation. Best example of this is to listen to Glenn Gould’s late recording “A State of Wonder”. It’s also universal and has been described as the only universal language (probably not true).

Even the first performance was an interpretation of the notation.

Musical notation is an abstraction, and this is why we still listen to 400 year old music, because it was never ‘hard coded’.

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