Modern Rhythmic Notation
Modern Rhythmic Notation

Author: Gardner Read

Publisher:

Published: 1978-11-22

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13:

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Twentieth-century music has significantly advanced the role of rhythm. The many variants of rhythmic notation, standard and experimental alike, encountered in contemporary music frequently demand explanation and interpretation. This book catalogs and clarifies the numerous ways of notating syncopation and alternative standard rhythmic figures, new time signatures, irrational rhythmic groupings within regular and irregular meters, experimental metrical concepts and techniques, analogs, and, finally, polymeters. Read compares traditional and present-day methods of delineating the same musical expressions, from fairly simple combinations to extremely complicated patterns.

Musical Notation in the West
Musical Notation in the West

Author: James Grier

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2021-02-18

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 0521898161

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

The Norton Manual of Music Notation
The Norton Manual of Music Notation

Author: George Heussenstamm

Publisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 9780393955262

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This book is designed to serve as a practical guide to music handwriting and music-writing procedures.

Music Notation in the Twentieth Century
Music Notation in the Twentieth Century

Author: Kurt Stone

Publisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated

Published: 1980

Total Pages: 357

ISBN-13: 9780393950533

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In this comprehensive and definitive survey of current notation procedures, Kurt Stone has brought order to a field traditionally fraught with confusion and idiosyncrasy. He not only describes and recommends new methods for notating modern music, thereby establishing standard procedures for the present and future, but integrates them with traditional practices still in use. The result is a guide to all forms of notation used in serious music today.

Berklee Contemporary Music Notation
Berklee Contemporary Music Notation

Author: Jonathan Feist

Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation

Published: 2017-09-01

Total Pages: 195

ISBN-13: 1540013006

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(Berklee Guide). Learn the nuances of music notation, and create professional looking scores. This reference presents a comprehensive look at contemporary music notation. You will learn the meaning and stylistic practices for many types of notation that are currently in common use, from traditional staffs to lead sheets to guitar tablature. It discusses hundreds of notation symbols, as well as general guidelines for writing music. Berklee College of Music brings together teachers and students from all over the world, and we use notation in a great variety of ways. This book presents our perspectives on notation: what we have found to be the most commonly used practices in today's music industry, and what seems to be serving our community best. It includes a foreword by Matthew Nicholl, who was a long-time chair of Berklee's Contemporary Writing and Production Department. Whether you find yourself in a Nashville recording studio, Hollywood sound stage, grand concert hall, worship choir loft, or elementary school auditorium, this book will help you to create readable, professional, publication-quality notation. Beyond understanding the standard rules and definitions, you will learn to make appropriate choices for your own work, and generally how to achieve clarity and consistency in your notation so that it best serves your music.

Behind Bars
Behind Bars

Author: Elaine Gould

Publisher: Faber Music Ltd

Published: 2016-08-17

Total Pages: 694

ISBN-13: 0571590039

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Behind Bars is the indispensable reference book for composers, arrangers, teachers and students of composition, editors, and music processors. In the most thorough and painstakingly researched book to be published since the 1980s, specialist music editor Elaine Gould provides a comprehensive grounding in notational principles. This full eBook version is in fixed-layout format to ensure layout and image quality is consistent with the original hardback edition. Behind Bars covers everything from basic rules, conventions and themes to complex instrumental techniques, empowering the reader to prepare music with total clarity and precision. With the advent of computer technology, it has never been more important for musicians to have ready access to principles of best practice in this dynamic field, and this book will support the endeavours of software users and devotees of hand-copying alike. The author's understanding of, and passion for, her subject has resulted in a book that is not only practical but also compellingly readable. This seminal and all-encompassing guide encourages new standards of excellence and accuracy and, at 704 pages, it is supported by 1,500 music examples of published scores from Bach to Xenakis. This is the full eBook version of the original hardback edition.

Material Cultures of Music Notation
Material Cultures of Music Notation

Author: Floris Schuiling

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2022-05-16

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 1000581209

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Material Cultures of Music Notation brings together a collection of essays that explore a fundamental question in the current landscape of musicology: how can writing and reading music be understood as concrete, material practices in a wider cultural context? Drawing on interdisciplinary approaches from musicology, media studies, performance studies, and more, the chapters in this volume offer a wide array of new perspectives that foreground the materiality of music notation. From digital scores to the transmission of manuscripts in the Middle Ages, the volume deliberately disrupts boundaries of discipline, historical period, genre, and tradition, by approaching notation's materiality through four key interrelated themes: knowledge, the body, social relations, and technology. Together, the chapters capture vital new work in an essential emerging area of scholarship.

Capturing Music
Capturing Music

Author: Thomas Forrest Kelly

Publisher: National Geographic Books

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 0393064964

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An accessible history of how musicians learned to record music discusses the work of five centuries of religious scholars while demonstrating how people developed methods for measuring rhythm, melody and precise pitch, leading to the technological systems of notation in today's world.

Essential Dictionary of Music Notation (Pocket Size Book)
Essential Dictionary of Music Notation (Pocket Size Book)

Author:

Publisher: Alfred Music Publishing

Published:

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 9781457410710

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This pocket-sized dictionary presents current and correct notation practices in an easy-to-use format. Generously illustrated and concise, this book is essential to any musician looking for a handy reference for the correct notation of music. A most welcome and beneficial source for every musician, whether using a pencil or a computer.

Notations 21
Notations 21

Author: Theresa Sauer

Publisher:

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13:

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Drawing inspiration from John Cage's, Notations, Notations 21 features illustrated musical scores from more than 100 international composers, all of whom are making amazing breakthroughs in the art of notation. These spectacularly beautiful and fascinatingly creative visual pieces not only make for exciting music, but inspiring visual art as well. The scores are accompanied by written contributions from the artists that explore every facet of their creative processes, from inspiration to execution. Contributors include the likes of Karlheinz Stockhausen, Earle Brown, Halim El-Dabh, Joan La Barbara, and Yuji Takahashi, as well as emerging composers whose compositions are also visually astounding and important. In the spirit of honoring the 40th anniversary of Cage's seminal book, while furthering it in a 21st century context, a portion of the sales will be donated to the Foundation for Contemporary Performing Arts.