Re: Why should we memorize?

On Aug 13, 3:53 pm, Adam Funk <a24...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 2009-08-13, Peter T. Daniels wrote:

On Aug 13, 8:48 am, Adam Funk <a24...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 2009-08-12, Peter T. Daniels wrote:
There doesn't seem to be anything in the article on how chords or
counterpoint are handled. It gives the impression that the notation
system is purely one-dimensional, which isn't useful for music since
ca. 800 AD.

There are  some keyboard examples here, but I find them extremely
confusing.  They might be of interest to you, though.

http://www.brl.org/music/code/bmb/chap20/index.html

That's the Institute's handbook, not the wiki article.

Right, but I found it by following links from the article.

It is not in the article. Are there statistics on how many people
bother to follow links from articles?

As my blind friend pointed out long ago, if you don't already know a
system, the Braille system isn't alien or awkward. They have to learn
English orthography as a completely new "language," since standard
("grade 2 1/2") Braille uses a huge number of abbreviations and
special signs. (There are, after all, 64 available characters, not
just 26.)

I'm sure that's true.  But as an expert in providing reading
materials, so to speak, to the blind told me about 6 or 7 years ago,
the proportion of blind people who have blind from birth or an early
age is much lower than it used to be, so the use of Braille (for
words, that is, not music) is strikingly low (I think it was something
like 5% of blind people in the UK, but I could be wrong).  Audio
recordings and text-to-speech software are much more popular.  Blind
people usually want the speed turned up to a much higher speed (words
or syllables per minute) than it's physically possible for a human to
achieve, to maximize the information flow.

He's my age; at birth he was in an incubator provided with pure
oxygen, which destroyed his optic nerves. That seems to have been a
major cause of blindness-from-birth.

He's a classical music fanatic.

My new DVD recorder plays back DVDs at double speed with double-speed
undistorted sound.
.

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