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    The document discusses the visual context of music through various examples of graphical musical scores and notations from different composers and artists. It provides descriptions of works and excerpts from pieces to illustrate how music can be represented visually. It also includes several links to other resources about experimental and graphical musical scores and notation.

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    The Visual Context of Music

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    The document discusses the visual context of music through various examples of graphical musical scores and notations from different composers and artists. It provides descriptions of works and excerpts from pieces to illustrate how music can be represented visually. It also includes several links to other resources about experimental and graphical musical scores and notation.

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    The document discusses the visual context of music through various examples of graphical musical scores and notations from different composers and artists. It provides descriptions of works and excerpts from pieces to illustrate how music can be represented visually. It also includes several links to other resources about experimental and graphical musical scores and notation.

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    The Visual Context of Music

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    The document discusses the visual context of music through various examples of graphical musical scores and notations from different composers and artists. It provides descriptions of works and excerpts from pieces to illustrate how music can be represented visually. It also includes several links to other resources about experimental and graphical musical scores and notation.

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    TheVisualContextofMusic

    "Amusicalnotationisalanguagewhichdetermineswhatyoucansay;
    whatyouwanttosaydeterminesyourlanguage."[CorneliusCardew1961]

    'Cant
    orinusadEorumInstructionem'LuceAntoniiJunte,1540.
    *Ithink*thattheimageofthehandwasmeantasamnemonicdevicetobeused
    instaggeredsingingofhymnssoastoremembertheallowednotes...orsomething.

    rtFludd(15741637).Opera,[Francofurti:Goudae],Oppenhemii,
    J.Th.deBryethaeredes,C.F.etG.Fitzer,P.Pammazenius,16171638."

    "Robe

    Gabri
    elSizes
    'EtudeExprimentaledAcoustiqueMusicale'1920
    [me:Ihavenoidea]

    Randy
    RaineReusch'Leaves2'1993.
    "Thisscorecanbeperformedaurally,visually,kinesthetically,
    synesthetically,interactively,literally,symbolically,orphilosophically."
    ToruTakemitsu1962'StudyforVibration'(from'CoronaforPianists').
    "Theperformancemaystartatanypointoftheperimeternomatterclockwiseorcounterclockwise." [nb.
    There'sachancethiswasmislabelledandisactuallybySylvanoBussotti]

    Murra
    ySchfer1977
    'DivanIShamsITabriz'forOrchestra,sevensingersandelectronicsounds.

    'Bird
    GongGame'~1990sBarryGuy

    Corne
    liusCardew'Treatise'(detail)1967.

    Georg
    eCrumb'MakrokosmosII12.AgnusDei[Symbol]Capricorn'.1973.

    Georg
    eCrumb'MakrokosmosI12.SpiralGalaxy[Symbol]Aquarius'.1973.

    'The
    ArtofFugue'bookartbyElizabethHarington.
    [AliteraryuseorresponsetothefuguecanbefoundinJoyce's11thepisodeinUlysses('Sirens')inwhich
    thewordingandchapterstructureattemptedwithsomepoeticlicensetomimicorworkwithinthe
    rulesofthefugue.Unsurprisingly,aquicksearchon'Sirens'revealedthatJohnCage,aleadingmusical
    experimentalistandgraphicscore'artist'namesJamesJoyceasaninfluence.See:'JamesJoyceandAvant
    GardeMusic'ScottW.Klein2004attheContemporaryMusicCentre.]

    'For
    Andreasection4'KerryJohnAndrews[detail]

    Scree
    ncapturefromSeeMusicProject:Kircher/Monteverdi.
    Thisposthadbeenleftonthebackburnerformanymonths.Graphicalscoresareamodernisttrendsoof
    coursecopyrightandcommercialinterestsmeansthattherearenotasmanyexamplesonlineasIhad
    otherwisehoped.

    Wikipediahasaverybasicintroductiontoexperimentalmusic.

    TheBlockMuseum's'PicturesofMusic'exhibitionatNorthwestenUniversityinIllinoishasa
    greatpresentationaboutthehistoryandexponentsofgraphicalscores.Alas,allthelinkstolarge
    imagesaredead,astheyweremonthsagowhenIfirstcheckedoutthesite.

    Thefirst3imagesabovecomefromawonderfulexhibitioninfrenchatLaBibliothquede
    Toulouse(clickon'exposvirtuelle')'Entreleslignesdelaporte:quandlamusiquesedonne
    voir'somethinglike:'Betweenthelinesoftherange:whenthemusicisseen.'Lotsofrare
    musicbookimagesandmusicsamples.

    AYoungPerson'sGuideto'Treatise'CorneliusCardew.

    ScoregalleryataJapanesesite.

    BarryGuygraphicalscoresatMayaRecordings.

    TheExperimentalMusicCatalogue(includingtheJournalofExperimentalMusic).

    TheofficialGeorgeCrumbhomepage.

    TheNewMusicBoxonGeorgeCrumbpdfscoresatthebottomofthepage.

    'APerformerDrawntothePiano'sWildSide'[NewYorkTimes]:WhyMargaretLengTanhas
    16toypianosandthreeSteinwaysinherBrooklynapartment.

    KarlheinzStockhausenhomepage.(googleimages)

    GraphicscoresbyRandyRaineReuschatAsza.

    KerryJohnAndrewsgraphicscoresattheDigitalArtMuseum.

    JohnKannenburggraphicscores.

    ThefinalimageabovecomesfromtheSeeMusicProjectwehavefinallyworkedoutthe
    loadingglitch(truncatedURL).It'saflashprogramthatdefinitelyrequiresahighspeed
    connectionandiswellworthalook.

    Whatdoesmusiclooklike?TheShapeofSong.

    'TheArtofFugue'bookartbyElizabethHarington.

    ManythanksvariouslyforknownandunknownassistancetoPanopticist,Waggish,GiornaleNuovo,
    LanguagehatandBoynton.
    Someofthelinkswillplaymusic.Asalways,clicktheaboveimagesforlargerversions.

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