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Musical Notation in the West

Autor James Grier
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 18 feb 2021
Musical notation is a powerful system of communication between musicians, using sophisticated symbolic, primarily non-verbal means to express musical events in visual symbols. Many musicians take the system for granted, having internalized it and their strategies for reading it and translating it into sound over long years of study and practice. This book traces the development of that system by combining chronological and thematic approaches to show the historical and musical context in which these developments took place. Simultaneously, the book considers the way in which this symbolic language communicates to those literate in it, discussing how its features facilitate or hinder fluent comprehension in the real-time environment of performance. Moreover, the topic of musical as opposed to notational innovation forms another thread of the treatment, as the author investigates instances where musical developments stimulated notational attributes, or notational innovations made practicable advances in musical style.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780521898164
ISBN-10: 0521898161
Pagini: 284
Dimensiuni: 196 x 249 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.68 kg
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Locul publicării:Cambridge, United Kingdom

Cuprins

List of figures; List of tables; List of musical examples; Preface; 1. Introduction: musical notation as a symbolic language; 2. Plainsong and the origins of musical notation in the west; 3. Polyphony and rhythmic notation; 4. The transition to the modern era: instrumental music and performing indications; 5. Notational nuance in the twentieth century, and the motives for notational innovation; Bibliography.

Recenzii

'Recommended.' S. C. Pelkey, Choice Magazine

Descriere

A detailed critical and historical investigation of the development of musical notation as a powerful system of symbolic communication.