Re: Fifty years' experience in C programming; 20 in VB...

"Madison Pruet" <mpruet_at_attbi.com> wrote in message news:3CD442B2.36092D25_at_attbi.com...
> ABD - Eastman School (University of Rochester) Performance major / Theory
>
> As an organist, you tend to be a musicologist, especially at Eastman with
the
> legacy of Harold Gleason. My Doctoral research was in 16th Century German
> Theory. I was doing quit a bit of research on J. Gottfried Printz. Quite
> interesting because he had developed theories similar to the three-chord
> theories of J.P. Rameau but 150 years earlier. He actually developed
rules
> about doubling a chord based on inversion which are very similar to the
rules
> that a Freshman would be taught in a harmony class and not following the
> figured-bass theories that were the common means of harmonic
classification
> during the high-baroque. He was referenced by J.S.Bach and was a
personal
> friend of Telleman. One of my teachers(David Beach) was a Yale grad and
> influenced by A. Forte so we did quite a bit of Schenker Analysis work and
Set
> Theory transformation analysis. Also, we spent a bit of time with
information
> theory and did quit a bit of work with early computer (c.a. 1970) musical
> encoding algorithms. One of my tasks was to work on a means of encoding
> notation so that we could distinguish between enharmonic spelling. This
was so
> that we would be able write analysis programs and CBT (PL/1 & SNOBOL)
That
> meant that we would be able to distinguish between c-f-g and c-e#-g and
things
> like a-flat,c,d-sharp,f-sharp vrs. a-flat,c,e-flat, g-flat. - not an easy
task.
>
> After I left Eastman, I took a BAL class night class, taught myself Cobol
&
> Fortran, bought Knuth, read a couple of manuals on data structures and
> algorithms. Then I started officially doing programming work.
>
> M.Pruet

   A bit harder than "Learn Visual Basic in 28 days" and    a couple of months practice then! Received on Sun May 05 2002 - 08:43:38 CDT