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02366aam a2200361 i 4500 001 153AA3D0177D11EC850ADFAD22ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210917010313 008 201203s2021 enkag b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 0521726425 020 $a 9780521726429 020 $a 0521898161 020 $a 9780521898164 035 $a (OCoLC)1230900283 040 $a UKMGB $b eng $e rda $c UKMGB $d OCLCO $d ERASA $d OCLCF $d UKMGB $d YDX $d SILO 050 4 $a ML431 $b .G75 2021 082 04 $a 780.148 $2 23 100 1 $a Grier, James, $d 1952- $e author. 245 10 $a Musical notation in the West / $c James Grier. 264 1 $a Cambridge : $b Cambridge University Press, $c 2021. 300 $a xvi, 269 pages : $b illustrations, music ; $c 25 cm. 490 1 $a Cambridge introductions to music 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (224-264 pages) and index. 520 8 $a 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. 650 0 $a Musical notation $z Western countries $x History. 650 7 $a Musical notation. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01030779 651 7 $a Western countries. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01302083 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 776 08 $i ebook version : $z 9781009038430 830 0 $a Cambridge introductions to music. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20220317023001.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=153AA3D0177D11EC850ADFAD22ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search