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I was hoping this would be about using different colours in musical notation, as I think that black-and-white sheet music doesn't use all the visual tools avail
by dane-pgp 5y ago
I was hoping this would be about using different colours in musical notation, as I think that black-and-white sheet music doesn't use all the visual tools available to modern designers.
It might be hard for musicians to decide what note to play just by looking at an associated colour (especially if they are colour-blind), but there shouldn't be any downside to doing something like "syntax highlighting" for musical notation, where the existing symbols are used, but are coloured based on what type of information they are conveying, e.g. tempo, dynamics, style.
- acadapter 5y agoI'd put "syntax highlighing" on the accidentals (maybe red and blue depending on whether it's flat and sharp relative to the scale), and leave everything else alone.
- furiens 5y agoYou certainly find this kind of thing in numerous beginner books, but I’m skeptical that it’d be of much use for complex scores, or for someone with mastery of sight-reading. We don’t tend to do the same for text, after all. That said, it is easy enough to miss a dynamic marking and plough through a section at the wrong volume. That one might be worthwhile!
- solarmist 5y agoI'd say that due to tradition/expense rather than lack of value.