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