source file: mills2.txt Date: Thu, 5 Dec 1996 18:44:58 -0800 Subject: Re: Practice From: Gary Morrison <71670.2576@CompuServe.COM> > In these days of sequencing and computer composition, there are > certain styles in which the composer does not have to be a performer at > all. Everybody will have to decide that for himself, but I have found that ... *********************************************************************** Sequencers can't help composers of music write fine symphonies much more than word processors help composers of poetry write fine verse. *********************************************************************** An' ya could betcha bottom dollah that I'd be the first one dancin' in the streets if they could! But it's just simply not that easy. Most any sequencer can provide punch-in and punch-out so that you can more accurately lay down the notes. But I have yet to find an unpracticed performer or humanization algorithm that can simulate finesse, and only a very few performances that couldn't benefit from more of it. And lord knows that includes my own compositions. Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Fri, 6 Dec 1996 03:45 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA00850; Fri, 6 Dec 1996 03:47:24 +0100 Received: from eartha.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA00848 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id SAA12841; Thu, 5 Dec 1996 18:47:21 -0800 Date: Thu, 5 Dec 1996 18:47:21 -0800 Message-Id: <961206024252_71670.2576_HHB73-6@CompuServe.COM> Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu