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Cracking the Code: What Notation Can Tell Us About Our Musical Values
Abstract: This essay presents a history of dominant Western notational systems in order to discover what aspects of music notation privileges and why. It then focuses on graphic notation in the 20th century to see how and why composers stretched and modified notations, how performers have responded to those changes, and what we learn about music through the process.
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