Comments on: Realtime liner notes: More thoughts http://classicalconvert.com/2007/12/realtime-liner-notes-more-thoughts/ A beginners guide to classical music, by someone who switched at 23 Fri, 27 Jan 2012 10:03:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: The Omniscient Mussel on Classical Music & Culture » Wednesday Links http://classicalconvert.com/2007/12/realtime-liner-notes-more-thoughts/comment-page-1/#comment-2048 The Omniscient Mussel on Classical Music & Culture » Wednesday Links Wed, 05 Dec 2007 16:13:33 +0000 http://classicalconvert.com/2007/12/realtime-liner-notes-more-thoughts/#comment-2048 [...] Convert has more thoughts on how realtime liner notes could work….Living Linernotes. (That suggestion’s on the house, Ben) Hopefully this [...] [...] Convert has more thoughts on how realtime liner notes could work….Living Linernotes. (That suggestion’s on the house, Ben) Hopefully this [...]

]]> By: Ben http://classicalconvert.com/2007/12/realtime-liner-notes-more-thoughts/comment-page-1/#comment-2036 Ben Tue, 04 Dec 2007 22:33:53 +0000 http://classicalconvert.com/2007/12/realtime-liner-notes-more-thoughts/#comment-2036 Jon: Absolutely. I pretty much universally hate American TV. I think on of the most important aspects of the realtime liner notes thing is that it should be something which you can do at your own pace, replaying and repeating as required. Jon:

Absolutely. I pretty much universally hate American TV. I think on of the most important aspects of the realtime liner notes thing is that it should be something which you can do at your own pace, replaying and repeating as required.

]]> By: JonJ http://classicalconvert.com/2007/12/realtime-liner-notes-more-thoughts/comment-page-1/#comment-2027 JonJ Tue, 04 Dec 2007 03:12:49 +0000 http://classicalconvert.com/2007/12/realtime-liner-notes-more-thoughts/#comment-2027 Bernstein pioneered this sort of thing on TV long ago, of course, but (in the US at least), the TV industry deep-sixed this kind of thing soon afterward, because it wasn't commercially profitable (even on "public" TV, which also has to make a "profit" in its own sense, or at least cover its expenses including its staff and executive salaries, and is really TV for the rich Philistine types who contribute most of the bucks to their fund-raisers). It's good that this Keeping Score series is being offered on some PBS stations, but how many? The internet is obviously the big opportunity now for classical music education, as you say. Real-time, on-site education during concerts might be possible to a certain extent; there have always been those stalwarts reading along in their scores in the dim light. But a well-designed web site should be able to give a newbie the opportunity to hear a piece and at the same time learn how it is put together, in the privacy of her or his home, so that no one else's experience of the music will be disturbed. And said newbie can repeat the lesson as many times as needed. Bernstein pioneered this sort of thing on TV long ago, of course, but (in the US at least), the TV industry deep-sixed this kind of thing soon afterward, because it wasn’t commercially profitable (even on “public” TV, which also has to make a “profit” in its own sense, or at least cover its expenses including its staff and executive salaries, and is really TV for the rich Philistine types who contribute most of the bucks to their fund-raisers). It’s good that this Keeping Score series is being offered on some PBS stations, but how many?

The internet is obviously the big opportunity now for classical music education, as you say. Real-time, on-site education during concerts might be possible to a certain extent; there have always been those stalwarts reading along in their scores in the dim light. But a well-designed web site should be able to give a newbie the opportunity to hear a piece and at the same time learn how it is put together, in the privacy of her or his home, so that no one else’s experience of the music will be disturbed. And said newbie can repeat the lesson as many times as needed.

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