James Grier

Musical Notation in the West

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Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 249mm x 196mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 680g
• ISBN-13: 9780521898164
• ISBN-10: 0521898161
• Artikelnr.: 60480396

Autorenporträt

James Grier is Professor of Music History at the University of Western Ontario and Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He has written The Critical Editing of Music (Cambridge, 1996; Spanish translation 2008), and three books on the music of Adémar de Chabannes, eleventh-century Aquitanian monk.

Inhaltsangabe

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.