Making prog with the music notation software...

Most of that far out and loved music was done in large, expensive recording studios of major record companies. They did multi-track recordings, multiple takes, punch-ins, edits, mixing, envelopes, effects, etc., but it was all done with an AAW (analog audio workstation) -- i.e. the recording studio. Now the same capability is available for a couple hundred bucks to do it digitally on a lap top.  Watch the videos of Wobbler recording, producing, editing, and mixing their Rites of Dawn album with a lap-top. I've not heard anyone complain that the result was inferior to analog. In fact, I'll bet most people didn't even know.

I sincerely doubt that many folks were actually "taught" in school, since at the age of 18/19 and 20, not many of us would have had enough music orientation to even be considered or mentioned in that vein when it came to a sentence that would make sense in that discussion.

In many ways, and in the case of a lot of the German music in the late 60's and early 70's, it was not so much about the school, as it was about the freedoms that the schools allowed and perhaps even EXPECTED, when you consider that at least one school actually paid a band to go to various countries to study and learn to play some of its music and even combine it to what they had!

Thus, a lot of this early music, was less about the music schools, although there was a huge one that had many famous composers in it (The Berlin School) and it also ended up bringing up some of the biggest names in electronics and a lot of music ... which is anti-idea ... completely different from the majority of other electronic/keyboard players around, most of which tend to show off their classical music skills and not their ability and composing skills! There is a huge difference there, and I tend to not enjoy the "classic" side of RW, as opposed to the new styled "classic" experience that Edgar Froese and Klaus Schulze came up with ... that most of us can not even wrap our heads around it for 5 minutes, because it is so deep and so far developed that all we can do is listen and feel ... alienated ... because it is so different!

Imagine a huge music school, that even had Ravi Shankar teaching there ... teaching you something that would go completely against "music theory", which in some ways makes sense, since music history has been almost about the breaking of the theory and coming up with a new one ... which does not exactly get defined for 50 more years, of course ... 

The DAW is as good a music composing artifice as any instrument ... with one possible interesting note ... it's been hundreds of years, and what brought us to the music was the sound that it could be created by the human hands, or mouth ... and all of a sudden, it is done by neither of them (directly) and the feel is likely to come up a bit lacking on the soul side of things compared to someone playing an instrument, even incorrectly ... at least you can feel a person trying.

I think the DAW is too new right now, but you and I can not deny some of these DJ's that are creating new music and coming up with nice things, even though, its truth can only be ascertained when it is played on stage by a real band, or an orchestra, and I think that we are still about 75 years from that ... we don't consider DJ's, musicians at all and some of them are way better than many well known "progressive" bullsheepdip guy out there ... and have a better sense of composition and music design, than many bands out there that are just showing off little riffs here and there to make sure you see how good and clever they are!