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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      January 2021
      February 2021
      ISBN:
      9781139034821
      9780521898164
      9780521726429
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781139034821
      Dimensions:
      (247 x 174 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.7kg, 284 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (247 x 174 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.56kg, 284 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Music, Medieval and Renaissance Music, Music, Music: General Interest
      Series:
      Cambridge Introductions to Music
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    Subjects:
    Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Music, Medieval and Renaissance Music, Music, Music: General Interest
    Series:
    Cambridge Introductions to Music
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    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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