Drawing Music, Marking Time
the design, structure and impact of musical notation
$343.39
- Hardcover
168 pages
- Release Date
19 March 2025
Summary
Drawing Music, Marking Time: Decoding the Art of Musical Notation
Marking down the complexities of musical pieces on paper allows them to become portable, shareable, and eminently teachable, but how are the simple geometries of a music notation unfolded into space and time?
A music notation is an almost impossibly complicated bit of drawing. Calling it a map or a diagram does not quite do the trick. Its tracery supplies mechanisms for planning, composition, …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781350447486 |
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| ISBN-10: | 135044748X |
| Series: | Drawing In |
| Author: | David Griffin, Assistant Professor David Griffin |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Imprint: | Bloomsbury Visual Arts |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 168 |
| Release Date: | 19 March 2025 |
| Weight: | 520g |
| Dimensions: | 236mm x 160mm x 18mm |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
We hear music; we see images. Musicians read staff notation as the rest of us read pictures – and we take such complex literacies – ‘visualcies’ is a better word - for granted. This book takes them apart; jolting our complacency by exploring the possibilities of alternative visual notation systems designed to bridge that sensory gap between hearing and seeing. A pioneering study of the graphic possibilities for the visual representation of music. * Howard Riley, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, UK *
About The Author
David Griffin
David Griffin is Assistant Professor at OCAD University in Toronto, Canada. Born in Kingston, Jamaica, he holds a PhD from the Glasgow School of Art, an MFA from the Pratt Institute, and BFA from Parsons School of Design in New York.
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