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> I play jazz and don't fully believe in Western music notation :) My friend - accomplished classical musician and now pretty well known jazz musician tells me
by singingfish 3y ago
> I play jazz and don't fully believe in Western music notation :)
My friend - accomplished classical musician and now pretty well known jazz musician tells me you can't write down latin music accurately. Personally I think while written language is largely about conveying a fairly unambiguous meaning, written music is really about providing enough for the player / or conductor to be able to infer what they need to do.
- bjoli 3y agoYou can't write any music accurately. Ask her if she can write a later Miles Davis solo accurately so that anybody can perform it just as he plays it :) I work in a much more notation-bound genre (I am an orchestra bassoon player) and I would say you would struggle a LOT to notate twinkle twinkle little star in a way that makes everyone perform it the same.