Website review: Mnma.org
jenner1066 discovered this in Music Composition
•20 reviews since Oct 30, 2004
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jenner1066 discovered 45 months ago- Music Notation Modernization Association
- pawemo rated 5 months ago
- This is a great site. I'm all for it. EDIT: (1/25/2008) hmm... looks like the site's moved to: http://musicnotationproject.org
- Appaloosa rated 13 months ago
- Don't change music notation!!!
- ToKnow rated 13 months ago
- Very interesting, changing our music notation system for efficiency is indeed interesting. However, I'm so accustomed to the traditional way that I'm probably not going to change even if our music notation system changes.
- LeonardoDaVinci rated 14 months ago
- Maybe this is an idea whose time has come. Musical notation has not evolved or changed for who knows how many years. As an orchestral violinist (in my Ute!) I can certainly attest to the difficulties and weaknesses inherent in the old system - especially for orchestral scores for composers like Mahler, and Copeland, who tended to use lots and lots of accidentals. Add to that the constant changes called for by the conductor, or the section leader, or even your stand partner, and the sheet music can get pretty hard to read. And in many cases, you have to read it on sight, which many musicians can not do. So, yes, a change is certainly in order. I think I'll follow this one quite closely, see where it goes.
- FlameWarrior rated 19 months ago
- Helpful.
- SabacthaniSax rated 21 months ago
- I've been taught to pretend that this kind of thing just doesn't exist. And this valse is enormous. What shall I do?
- fiddlefye rated 21 months ago
- Music notation as we know it has been around for so long in the current form that we tend to forget that it has spent a long time evolving. Even the notation as used in the 19th century is somewhat different from the current usage at times. For many decades there have been composers who created their own variants to allow them to create in ways that were difficult before. This site contains many proposals for alternate systems (though most bear a similarity to what we have in some way). Here is one example:
- agentlapis rated 21 months ago
- If this system does indeed encourage more people to learn to read music (and maintain that knowledge) this is awesome! Conversely (this is a long shot) if this system completely takes over, music will have to be reprinted or the average person won't be able to make heads or tails of it.
- Pistos rated 22 months ago
- The flaws listed for standard notation are indeed problems, but musicians for centuries have dealt with them, and learned music with standard notation. There are several problems with alternative music notation: 1) People have to learn one or more new systems. People don't like change, and are especially resistant to change when the status quo works for them. 2) One standard alternative. The website lists several alternatives. The people working so hard to improve notation should get together and develop one, single, standard notation that they want to propose. 3) Translation. Essentially all music is written in standard notation, tabulature, or chords. For an alternative standard to be useful, LOTS of already written music needs to be translated and republished using the new notation. 4) Adoption. LOTS of new music needs to come out in the new notation. Teachers need to learn it, and students need to learn it. This whole thing is a bit like Esperanto. Good idea in theory, but human nature won't allow it.
