Imagine Living In A Culture Where Everyone Knows How To Read Sheet Music, And Regularly Read Notes As

Imagine living in a culture where everyone knows how to read sheet music, and regularly read notes as a form of enjoying music, because they can picture the notes in their heads. There are plenty of musical pieces that were never even intended to be actually performed by actual musicians or orchestras, as a matter of fact a few classics would be physically impossible to execute.

And you really can't. You can kinda recognise pitch, and understand what note represents which pitch, but whenever you're reading music, you always end up humming every note in order to understand it, or even try to properly understand. You try to hum quietly but always end up doing it out loud anyway, and someone will definitely be like

"Oh my god can you shut up? What are you, a toddler? Do I need to hand you a recorder? Please fucking read quietly like an adult."

Everything is a mimic

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