Re: [microsound] |-| Re: // techniques ]]

[Michal Seta <mis@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

jonah dempcy wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Donald Mennerich" <meadowlark6@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> > - you copied scores out,  and learned to sing all the parts.
>
> how did non-western cultures survive musically, then? eg: traditional sufi
> music/ragas which were not recorded on paper until the 19th century (and
> which can still only be approximated by notation).
>
> certainly the information was transmitted, but was it analyzed? no. there
> was no system with which it could be analyzed.
>
> -jonah
>
>

interested people learned from their masters who tought them all they neede
to know about instruments and characteristics of music.