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Re: music by numbers
> "Everything in music goes by numbers"
>
> playing the devil's advocate, but who is to say which came first? for
> example: perhaps everything in numbers goes by music. why are numbers
> considered the basis?
>
numbers are just another way of describing the same thing.
if you say "this song is in E" you are being just as abstract...
>...
> i can't think of the last time that music was "visual" ...
it was just a few weeks ago on this very list, remember?
>...and thus i
> (personally) not only need but see NO purpose in visual representations
>of
> anything musical.
>
it can definitely improve the speed at which one can learn a concept,
generate material, expand a development section, etc...
it can also make these things possible for people like me with no
attention span...
>.... music is neither science nor sport....
it is both and more...
>...do you really think
> that the beach boys were thinking numbers when they recorded pet sounds?
yes. (probably not consciously)
> ...
> perhaps it does help to know how sound is generated, etc. but i state
>that
> it doesn't hurt to not know.
much better. it seemed you were insisting that it did hurt to know.
i agree that it is not for everyone. most of the early jazz greats didn't
know
what to call the chords, but they could hear them.
>...