I wonder if there's some elegant way of getting around the ledger line problem--maybe by adding more lines to the staff, but making the current top and bottom lines dotted.
When you talk about people who can read music but not write it, are you talking about composing or transcription? In my case, I can read music, but writing it is a very slow process--my memory for sounds is quite poor while the text-to-fingers connection is pretty good. I think of musical instruments as tools for supplying pitch accuracy that I can't reliably do mentally.
I'm talking about transcription. I understand why composing is a distinct skill. (Though there's a tangent there about how my brain works, composition, and improisation, that I'll probably want to write about sometime in the future...)
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When you talk about people who can read music but not write it, are you talking about composing or transcription? In my case, I can read music, but writing it is a very slow process--my memory for sounds is quite poor while the text-to-fingers connection is pretty good. I think of musical instruments as tools for supplying pitch accuracy that I can't reliably do mentally.
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