Description
- Offers a diverse snapshot of current studies of music notation as material culture, encompassing a wide range of methodological approaches - Broad historical and regional/stylistic scope, covering material from the middle ages to the present
Table of Contents
Chapter One: Introduction: Notation and/as material culture
Floris Schuiling and Emily Payne
Part I: Epistemologies of notation
Chapter Two: Was 1974 the End of Music History? Universalism, cybernetics, and the International Conference of New Musical Notation
Giulia Accornero
Chapter Three: Encyclopaedias and empty staves: Re-reading music in Hanne Darboven’s Quartett ›88‹
Elaine Fitz Gibbon
Chapter Four: Scoring the listener: Notation and representation in acousmatic music
Patrick Valiquet
Part II: Notation and the body
Chapter Five: The Deaf body beyond music: Music notation by Christine Sun Kim
Chae-Lin Kim
Chapter Six: Music, notation, and embodiment in early sixteenth-century Italian pictures
Tim Shephard and Sanna Raninen
Chapter Seven: The work of notation in the visual culture of medieval devotion
Beth Williamson
Part III: Notation and social relations
Chapter Eight: Jianpu simplified notation and the transnational in musical repertoires of New York’s Chinatown
Joseph S. Kaminski
Chapter Nine: Mediating minstrelsy: Notating instrumental identity in fourteenth-century song
David Maw
Chapter Ten: Inscription, gesture, and social relations: Notation in Karnatak music
Lara Pearson
Part IV: Notation, instruments, and technology
Chapter Eleven: Digital scores, algorithmic agents, and encoded ontologies: On the objects of musical computation
Brian A. Miller
Chapter Twelve: Perforating the subject: The player piano rolls of Conlon Nancarrow
Naomi Woo
Chapter Thirteen: Material bias: David Tudor’s realisations
You Nakai
Chapter Fourteen: ‘I Feel Love’: Music mutation in the electronic age
Kiene Brillenburg Wurth
