Bill Drewett wrote:

>JL Zaimont wrote:
>
>>Many of us do read score just as we read a novel or a treatise -- and when
>>we do (if we do it with skill and knowledge) we are fully visiting with
>>that work.  Score-reading permits the luxury of savoring at length, and in
>>great detail, a moment within the piece which, in performance, may be only
>>a fleeting wonder. ...
>>
>I confess that I cannot 'read' a score in the same way as described here --
>though it may add immeasurably to read along while listening to a piece.
>I am a bit troubled, and maybe unconvinced, that one can 'fully visit...'
>the work purely in score.  Doesn't this leave out the element of time?
>Isn't the 'fleeting wonder' of a moment in performance crucial to music,
>since music occurs within some span of time?

That it is possible to read a score and hear the music as Ms.  Zaimont
describes (which I, alas cannot) should be apparent when we consider the
masterpieces composed by deaf composers.

Walter Meyer