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On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 02:39:19PM -0400, Chris Pickett wrote:

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> Michal Seta wrote:

> >Well, I must be a different race of a classical musician.  I have been

> >trained as a classical musician and I've been trained to read the

> >black dots with beams people call scores.  However, a score is only a

> >representation of music.  The same music could be represented in

> >different ways.  As a guitarist I have learnt to play from a guitar

> >score, piano score, lead sheet, modern guitar tablature and

> >medieval/rennaissance tablature (of which there were 2 kinds).  These

> >are all valid representations of musical compositions and they all

> >have strengths and weaknesses.  Any piece of music (as long as it's

> >within the traditional 12 tone equal temperament) can be represented

> >using any of the above methods.  So why not text?  Entering textual

> >representation of music and following certain _markup_ rules is not

> >programming.  If it were so, simply scoring should be considered

> >programming, too.

>

> Yes, in my mind, "programming" requires the existance of conditions and

> (possibly backward) branches.

You mean like repeat signs, multiple endings for different times through

a section, codas, DS al capo, etc, etc?
-ERic Rz.