There's also a microphone for capturing voice notations and other sounds.
There's even a section that has interactive musical notation with voices singing the musical scale.
This may be Mallarmé's ultimate response to Wagner: the layout evokes musical notation, with voices rising and falling amid expectant silences.
He was an oddball who played pibroch, ancient Celtic bagpipes that predate musical notation and are taught by voice.
Composer of more than 150 orchestral, choral and chamber works and pieces for the piano, organ and solo voice; author of 10 books on musical composition and notation; conductor; international lecturer on contemporary American music; and Professor Emeritus of Composition at Boston University School of Fine & Applied Arts, he will live on in his music and in the hearts of all who loved him.
The full expression of one's vocal range will include three of four different pitch notation numbers, including his or her lowest note, highest note in modal voice, and highest note in head voice.
You can think of the software as a kind of audio font: musical notation and lyrics can be translated into the chosen voice, then saved for replay, just as a word processor might translate a text into Helvetica or Times New Roman and print it out as many times as you like.
If this describes you, keep a digital voice recorder or a notebook (if you know any kind of music notation).
Behind your notation, Detour automatically shapes the audio to sit under the spoken voice.
I am grateful to Ann Daly ["In Dance, Preserving a Precarious Legacy Begins Onstage," Feb. 18] for voicing a truth not apparent to most, that despite film, video and notation, dance dies unless danced.
