May 26, 2013

My favorite music-tech triumvirate: pencil, music paper, piano. Developing handwriting (manuscript) allows personal physical contact (literally drawing/shaping/directing the materials, using the piano or an instrument to try out/check the sounds as they form), attention to standards (notational conventions), and more. And working by hand requires comprehensive skills that are different from computer-interface requirements. Hand manuscript can pick up where music notation software leaves off. So I say: why not start and end there anyway?