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