01487nam a2200181Ia 4500 240821s9999 xx 000 0 und d 9780521726429 pbk eng 781.25 GRI Grier, James Musical Notation In The West / James Grier Cambrdige 2021 New delhi xv, 269 p. : ill. ' 25 c.m. index 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. Music ENGLISH 524486 524486 0 0 0 0 ACL ACL 6B 2024-04-01 2006.00 0 781.25 GRI 674713 2024-08-21 13:32:40 2024-08-21 REF