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Old May 25 2008, 7:05 PM
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Ahah, the Mondrian influence gets clearer!

Anyways, I'm too tired right now to comment on this score, but just in reply to Dev: What exactly are you willing to accept as a score? Are you willing to accept Indian or Japanese music notation as scores? And what about Gregorian chant notated in neumes where pitches and rhythms aren't indicated at all, just the general contours of the music? And what about the many, many scores in the 20th century that differ from "common practice period" music notation? Notation changes with the music and is in the end only a tool. Some forms of notation may be more suitable for a specific kind of music than others, but in the end the acoustic result counts.

You don't judge a piece of software by the program language it was written in either, but by how well it works. If it doesn't work well, you may argue that another programming language would have worked better, but as long as it works it's rather irrelevant whether it was written in C++, Assembler, or JavaScript ().

Anything can be a score to music, the question is just whether it's a suitable form of notating a specific kind of music.
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