My experience (anecdotal, humanly fallible and subjective, of course) would suggest that such changes are just as likely - if not moreso - to start from the grassroots.TribeOfHǫfuð wrote: ↑Sat Sep 25, 2021 6:28 pm You see, many come around with all kinds of revolutionary ideas mainly based on very fragmentet knowledge of music theory and history. But for such a system to be succesfull, you´d have to prove its superiority in a Ph.d. project and several peer reviewed articles and in practise too. Then you´d have to convince people to implement it, retrain them and depart from a very nuanced musical notation system whose inherited musicality you have just eliminated and replaced by sheer numbers.
It reminds me of a few things I've heard in the past, for example:
"Real music is made with acoustic instruments"
"Software synthesizers will never sound as good as hardware ones"
"General-purpose CPUs will never be powerful enough to do high-quality synthesis on"
"CPUs in affordable computers are not powerful enough to make entire tracks"
"Integrated AD/DA chips have inadequate frequency response and are not good enough for low-latency monitoring"
"FL Studio is not enough to make hits"
"Pro Tools is an industry standard [which everyone must learn]"
I strongly suspect that "Staff-based symbolic notation and nomenclature derived from it are the primary choices for music theory" will eventually end up on that list.
A lot of folks I've interacted with in electronic music scene have grown up with 12-pitch piano rolls and MIDI files. Millions of kids start out with a laptop and a DAW. A few years ago I tutored some juniors in the electronic scene, writing emails with chord symbols and roman numerals - but MIDI files were of most use to them.
So I have a feeling that this is another case of "The avalanche has already started, it is too late for the pebbles to vote". So I roll with it, although I suspect it will be decades before it settles on a clear direction. And even though the "simple 12-pitch thinking" actually agrees with many of my own preferences, on some days I still find it hard to think of 5 as a "7" and of m3 as a "3", and so on.
But I'm getting there, and it is actually helping me to classify pitch sets like "0,3,5" as their own harmonic concepts. As said, I really like the sound of (0,3,5) both as a "chord" in its own right and as basis for simple melodies.
(sorry for mild offtopic)