Sound and Score
Description
Subtitle: Essays on Sound, Score and Notation
Exploring the complex and intimate relations between
sound, score and notation
Sound and Score brings together music expertise from
prominent international researchers and performers exploring the
intimate relations between sound and score and the artistic
possibilities that this relationship yields for performers,
composers and listeners.
Considering "notation" as the totality of words, signs, and symbols encountered on the road to an accurate and effective performance of music, this book embraces different styles and periods in a comprehensive understanding of the complex relations between invisible sound and mute notation, between aural perception and visual representation, and between the concreteness of sound and the iconic essence of notation.
Three main perspectives structure the analysis: a conceptual approach that offers contributions from different fields of enquiry (history, musicology, semiotics), a practical one that takes the skilled body as its point of departure (written by performers), and finally an experimental perspective that challenges state-of-the-art practices, including transdisciplinary approaches in the crossroads to visual arts and dance.
Contributors
Virginia Anderson (Experimental Music Catalogue), Paulo de Assis
(Orpheus Institute), Sandeep Bhagwati (Concordia University
Montréal), Robin T. Bier (University of York), Maria Calissendorff
(Royal College of Music, Stockholm), Miguelàngel Clerc (Leiden
University), Kathleen Coessens (Vrije Universiteit Brussel and
Orpheus Institute), Jeremy Cox (European Association of
Conservatoires - AEC), Darla Crispin (Orpheus Institute), Anne
Douglas (Robert Gordon University), Gregorio García Karman
(University of Huddersfield), Yolande Harris (Leiden University),
Susanne Jaresand (Royal College of Music, Stockholm), Tanja Orning
(Norwegian Academy of Music, Oslo), Paul Roberts (Guildhall School
of Music and Drama, London), Anna Scott (Leiden University),
Andreas Georg Stascheit (Institute for Advanced Study in the
Humanities, Essen/Dortmund University)