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It's a mess in the same sense that Vim and Emacs are a mess. Traditional notation is designed to be maximally efficient for expert users at the expense of being
by jdietrich 8y ago
It's a mess in the same sense that Vim and Emacs are a mess. Traditional notation is designed to be maximally efficient for expert users at the expense of being more difficult to learn.
- roryokane 8y agoI disagree that the notation is maximally efficient for expert users. Transposed notation does make it easier for expert players of the instrument to learn fingerings for multiple instruments, but as zozbot123 mentioned, the notation makes it harder for expert readers of sheet music to read a score for multiple instruments and imagine the resulting sounds in their head. I think a maximally efficient notation would not have that drawback.