New Music Library: A Guide to Notational Signs for Contempoary Music

Risatti, Howard

ISBN 10: 025200406X / ISBN 13: 9780252004063

Published by University of Illinois Press, Urbana, Chicago & London, 1976

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1976. [xvii], 219pp. "Like the rest of the arts, music has undergone a great deal of change in the past two decades. Explorations of new sound-production techniques on traditional instruments, along with other developments and alterations in the basic nature of music, have led to large gaps in understanding and much disorder in notation. By inventing new symbols to express new musical ideas, composers have generated a tremendous body of material that is not only alien to many traditional musicians and to most students, but is often contradictory, repetitive, and confusing. In order to standardize a body of symbols so that common usage will replace the present arbitrary and individual usage, Risatti has arranged the new notational material in an orderly fashion. He covers each of the five instrument groups including voice and presents a chapter on general notational systems. In addition, he furnishes a list of composers whose works were used to determine what new notational signs are in current use, a key to indicate in which compositions the symbol may be found, and an extensive cross-referenced index of all terms, symbols, and concepts used. In so doing he provides a much-needed reference for composers, a guide and text for students of theory and composition, and a dictionary for conductors and performing musicians." Spine cracked. The book is otherwise in excellent condition. There are no inscriptions and all contents are tight and clean.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: New Music Library: A Guide to Notational Signs for Contempoary Music
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press, Urbana, Chicago & London
• Publication Date: 1976
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 025200406X
• ISBN 13: 9780252004063
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: Second Printing Thus
• Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Music