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Sean McGrath <sean.mcgrath@p...> wrote: > Yes indeed, but why is it that so many people never learn to read the > notation? All metaphors and allegories aside about the complexity of notation, I've always thought the main reason a lot of people haven't learned to read musical notation ... is that they've never had the *need* to learn to read the notation? Unless you want to be a professional musician, and even then in some genres, notation isn't needed. Even an amateur like me can enjoy the crap out of Bach's mass in B without so much as knowing the signature of the music or how quivers are notated or the tempo is noted. In fact, it has to be said that markup is hence so much more readable than musical notation, for nothing more than the linguistic hints and semantics of element names and attributes; at least they are spelled out in a less ambiguous way than, say, every programming language out there where the tiniest semiotic sign is paramount to the interpretation of the code. Actually, I only have one gripe about XML markup specifically, and that is the lack of commonly used HTML entities out of the box; it has deterred a many developer away from "something written for the web, but isn't even HTML compatible?!" Cheers, Alex -- Project Wrangler, SOA, Info Alchemist, UX, RESTafarian, Topic Maps http://shelter.nu/blog | google.com/+AlexanderJohannesen http://xsiteable.org | http://www.linkedin.com/in/shelterit
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