Musical notation in the West

James Greer, University of Western Ontario

'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...

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Main Author: Grier, James, 1952- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021.
Series:Cambridge introductions to music
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Physical Description:xvi, 269 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
ISBN(s):9780521726429 : paperback
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