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From: brownd@thor.acc.stolaf.edu (David H. Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Re: programs that can infer key/meter
Keywords: Finale?
Message-ID: <7354@thor.acc.stolaf.edu>
Date: 13 Oct 89 12:45:50 GMT
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In article <484@artsnet.UUCP> mgresham@artsnet.UUCP (Mark Gresham) writes:

>Good luck. Especially on things like changing meters and
>syncopations within a strict meter.  If musicians can't agree
>on how to notate such (and believe me, that's rampant) how can
>someone program 'definitive' decisions about it?

	The way to make 'definitive' decisions:

		1.	Define an arbitrary standard.
		2.	Use it consistently.

If you (a program) insist on such standard, some people will come to believe
that it's correct.   (My Acoustics prof. referred to this as "proof by
intimidation.")  If all goes welll, the standard will become accepted
generally.  Now, how to get all programs to agree (e.g. Finale, SCORE, etc.)?
I'm sure I don't know.  But a standard format for indicating syncopations
would be extremely useful-- apart from the sillico-musical environ, too.

>Mark Gresham  ARTSNET  Norcross, GA, USA
>E-mail:       ...gatech!artsnet!mgresham
>or:          artsnet!mgresham@gatech.edu


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