Comments on: Tossed Salad and Scrambled Eggs http://www.susantomes.com/tossed-salad-scrambled-eggs/ Pianist & writer Tue, 07 Feb 2012 08:56:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Susan Tomes http://www.susantomes.com/tossed-salad-scrambled-eggs/comment-page-1/#comment-2481 Susan Tomes Thu, 29 Apr 2010 15:40:45 +0000 http://www.susantomes.com/?p=1743#comment-2481 Thank you, Chris - your comments are very Borges-ian! Thank you, Chris – your comments are very Borges-ian!

]]> By: Chris http://www.susantomes.com/tossed-salad-scrambled-eggs/comment-page-1/#comment-2470 Chris Thu, 29 Apr 2010 00:12:18 +0000 http://www.susantomes.com/?p=1743#comment-2470 Doesn't it all depend on the purpose of the notation? Is it to enable someone to create their own performance, to recreate precisely Kelsey Grammer's, to comment critically on the composition or on the performance technique, etc? Each requires its own level of detail, some transcribable into notation, some only fully possible with a sound recording. Lewis Carroll wrote an essay on maps, in which his conclusion was that the only perfect map of the terrain is the terrain itself; similarly the only truly perfect "notation" of a performance is the performance itself. Doesn’t it all depend on the purpose of the notation? Is it to enable someone to create their own performance, to recreate precisely Kelsey Grammer’s, to comment critically on the composition or on the performance technique, etc? Each requires its own level of detail, some transcribable into notation, some only fully possible with a sound recording.

Lewis Carroll wrote an essay on maps, in which his conclusion was that the only perfect map of the terrain is the terrain itself; similarly the only truly perfect “notation” of a performance is the performance itself.

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