Reposted by @musicresearchunit.bsky.social
“She’s just a translator” shows that you don’t understand what translation is. Some of this comes from the ‘automation’ of translation, through things like Google translate. It’s as though it’s just looking words up in a dictionary. No. It’s an art and a science at once. To get meaning and feeling.
![A passage from Richard Greene’s book about The Planets suite by Holst, containing a excerpt from the programme note for ‘Mercury,’ which reads, ‘The movement takes the place of a scherzo and is mainly constructed [of] the welcome datacompordinary major scale with the four lower notes shifted a semitone upward.’ My finger is pictured pointing at the word, ‘datacompordinary’.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:3u4yezfifhwdhtv4jjjbo7e4/bafkreignw7yai5fuwaufa47aemdh2ey3yr4dfoa3hs4ffnc7otvkothk7q)
