Drawing Music, Marking Time: The Design, Structure and Impact of Musical Notation

by David Griffin

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, analysis, annotation, and performance...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 135044748X
• ISBN13: 9781350447486
• Release Date: February 2025
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"