On Dec 4, 2007 3:54 AM, Charles Gran <sonance@campdeadly.com> wrote:

> But a manual that musicians use?  I can't even get my students to
> read their harmony textbook, and that thing is about as long as an
> issue of X-MEN.  Big books that musicians read?  I don't know.
> There's that Taruskin book on Stavinsky.  I'm reading Alex Ross's THE
> REST IS NOISE, and he quotes Taruskin all over the place so I assume
> he read it.  But he's a musicologist and they LIKE to read.

Computer Music Tutorial is listed at 904 pages, I don't know a bigger
music volume, and Adler's Orchestration says 864.

> It would be nice to have a manual that one could get *in hand.*  That
> being said, it's probably better to have the programmers occupied
> with the program itself.  That's always the rub isn't it?  One has to
> know the thing to write about it.

The manual is also distributed as html pages; not meant for print,
true, but it wouldn't be hard to make subsets with them, and maybe
some style sheet wizardry could condense and control them.

-Chuckk

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