Aspects of Realtime Scoring and Extreme Sight Reading
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- Chasing Ghosts: Reactive Notation and Extreme Sight Reading
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- Aspects of Realtime Scoring and Extreme Sight Reading
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Panel: Chasing Ghosts: Reactive Notation and Extreme Sight Reading
The relationship between the composer of a work and the interpreter of it can often be deducted from the type of score at hand and how it is notated. Various degrees of freedom have been given and taken away from the interpreter over the history of Western music. In early music styles, interpreters embellished melodies with simple to elaborate ornamentations and improvised cadenzas; in contemporary music the amount of freedom an interpreter is given varies, but is all too often very restrictive. The following paper introduces the concept of malleability in score making and reading, in a step-by-step manner. Key concepts are illustrated with examples of various score types from malleable paper scores to the interactive screen based ones.