This is the first book to examine comprehensively the major systems of musical notation proposed during the past three centuries. Illustrating the many attempts to improve upon or replace the traditio
Twentieth-century music has significantly advanced the role of rhythm. The many variants of rhythmic notation, standard and experimental alike, encountered in contemporary music frequently demand expl
An important characteristic of contemporary art music has been the use of conventional instruments in unconventional ways, achieving effects undreamed of or thought impossible in the early twentieth c
Inspired by the choice of many 20th-century composers to render some musical directions in their scores in pictographic rather than verbal terms, the book presents a vast assortment of pictographic sy
No other book has covered the subject of 20th-century microtonal notation in such depth as this comprehensive guide book. In 20th-Century Microtonal Notation, Read lists chronologically, describes, an
