Sixth Discussion @ Poppa Rollo's 10-05-05 @ 10:00pm

Topic of discussion -

Music Notation

- graphic notation
- experimental notation
- how can we notate other than on paper?
- knowing more ways to notate music helps communicate how to reproduce the sonority a composer hears or has in mind (browse around the MT35 section of the Crouch Fine Arts Library to find books on musical notation including 20th century graphic notation)

Idea that notation is just a BLUEPRINT
This makes a great parallel between architects and composers
- two people using the same blueprint can construct identical buildings
[one can live in a building that is nothing but that represented on the blueprint - having no decorations, no furniture, no drywall, etc.; it would of course be a boring, dull, uninteresting place to live]
- it is how the two people decorate their space (that which the architect conceived) which gives it stimulation, life, and interest

In the English language, we call written notation (instructions) and performances (the audible) both "music." The German language desiphers the two more clearly so that written notation is called die noten (notes) and that heard is called die musik (music). Of course this begins to blend into last week's discussion on musicality and inspiration verses technique and craft.