Re: simplifying chromatic scale notation

[Thomas Morley]

2016-01-26 13:40 GMT+01:00 David Kastrup <address@hidden>:
> Chris Yate <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Wow. Clairnote looks like an incredibly stupid idea, and a grand
>> disservice to any poor child who you teach to read it.  Simplified
>> notation is not a lot better.
>>
>> Unless they spend their lives playing on their own at home, musicians
>> have eventually to play with other people who will have learnt a
>> method of notation that's been good for 400 years.
>
> You could say the same about tablature.  Obviously, it has its place.
> Even Bach wrote stuff for lute tablature.
>
> --
> David Kastrup


For the record.
There are some lute tablatures of Bach's works for lute, namely for
BWV 995, 997, 1000.
But for some of them it's sure Bach didn't wrote the tablature
himself, for others it's quite unlikely.
Ofcourse this is a sidenote, not meant to challenge your argument.
Replace Bach with S.L.Weiss (or other lute-players/composers) and
you're right anyway.

Cheers,
  Harm