Of course, I can’t disagree at all. My fundamental dispute, I suppose, is whether using notation at all is the best way to do it.
(Bear in mind that’s from someone who will vociferously defend the importance of notation in musical education in other contexts! 
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Speaking as a complete music illiterate, I couldn’t care less. I like the music I like, and have zero interest in how it is constructed. I’m quite sure that if I were willing, I could find reams of information that would help me understand a certain piece of music better if I were interested, yet I don’t, as I highly doubt it would make me enjoy music any more than I already do.
I think my outlook is quite common as well.
Somewhere at home I have a series of four CD-ROMs from Microsoft, called Multimedia Beethoven, Multimedia Mozart, etc. Each plays a piece of the composer’s music while displaying the score and offering more information about the composer and the work. I haven’t used the discs in a long while so I don’t remember exactly what they show. But at the time (early 1990s) it was a clever use of “multimedia.”
Moving to Cafe Society from GQ.
Colibri
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