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Re: Straight eighths

Author: beejay
Date: 2007-09-25 10:19

I do take the point that you learn to play jazz by listening to it. However, my question was related to some stuff I have been reading about the history of notation over the past four hundred years. Baroque music was written straight, but was certainly not played straight. Since we don't know what the conventions were, we can never be sure we are playing it with historical accuracy. Imagine a situation a few hundred years from now when beings on a distant planet are studying the history of music on earth but (for sake of argument) have no means of hearing it. Wouldn't their problems with jazz notation be the same as ours with early music?

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