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