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Article #3366Re: Timbre Perception and Orchestration
From: Eliot Handelman
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1991 21:10
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1991 21:10
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In article <2118@anaxagoras.ils.nwu.edu> sandell@ils.nwu.edu (Greg Sandell) writes:
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;p.s. I call my research area "Concurrent Timbre." Eliot ("Music Mediates
;Mind[tm]") Handelman, if you're reading this, I could use some advice
;on how I can patent this phrase and license it for profit... :-)
I made it down this far, anyhow.
There is no distinction between music and theory.
I don't have to LISTEN to a piece of music in order to find out
how it goes. I am conversant with mountains of music sufficiently
"the same" that my thumb can listen: I can read a 12 or 15 minute
long orchestra piece in about 10 or 15 seconds.
It's more difficult to scan CD's, but it can be done. Speeds
roughly 20 to 30 times specs, especially for slow computer music,
are completely adequate to the aim of framing a few quick
perceptions. Bear in mind: not the realism of these perceptions,
only their formation, is of interest.
This faculty is less pronounced in some theorists.
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