source file: mills2.txt Date: Mon, 12 Aug 1996 13:01:27 -0700 Subject: Jammin' with Joe Brooks.... From: gtaylor@heurikon.com (One Cointreau, on ice....) Neil G. Haverstick: >Well, it's obvious that he (BACH) could improvise on a very >high level, than go back and jot down a close fascimile...endless var- >iations, at an incredible level of physical execution. Well, we *do* have a number of contemporary accounts of Bach's prowess an an improvisor of multi-voice fugues based on a theme given to him by someone with whom he dined. They were, unsurprisingly, wowed. And remember that we also don't use figured bass notation to generate our accompaniment, either. In some sense, one could perhaps think of figured bass as the "skeleton" around which an improvisation was based in the way that you or I would read from a chart. With regards, Gregory _ I would go to her, lay it all out, unedited. The plot was a simple one, paraphrasable by the most ingenuous of nets. The life we lead is our only maybe. The tale we tell is the must that we make by living it. [Richard Powers, "Galatea 2.2"] Gregory Taylor/Heurikon Corporation/Madison, WI Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Mon, 12 Aug 1996 22:36 +0200 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA11311; Mon, 12 Aug 1996 22:36:23 +0200 Received: from eartha.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA11302 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id NAA03199; Mon, 12 Aug 1996 13:36:21 -0700 Date: Mon, 12 Aug 1996 13:36:21 -0700 Message-Id: Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu