Bill Pirkle wrote:
>Being a boring day, I decided to go into meta-composition even more.
>If you render printed music on an adding machine tape format which is
>the way it is heard, one long stream of sounds, the Appassionata would be
>approx. 115 feet long (if I counted and measured staves properly). This
>is a one dimensional surface, length. ...
>
>When Beethoven said (ref my recent post) "... I have the whole thing in
>mind", I am curious what he had in mind, the adding machine tape format or
>the white spaced "chunk" structure.
I would hazard a guess that when most composers have something in mind,
they are not thinking in symbols, but instead thinking in SOUNDS.
Mimi Ezust