MUS111H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: The Player Piano, Medieval Music, Early Music

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20 Apr 2013
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Musical notation and technocultural institutions (gay, 1999). Instruments and/as technology: the upright piano and player piano. We need a certain kind of literacy to know how to translate that into music. You have to learn to translate this kind of notation onto an instruments. There is also koto music notation from 1811 from japan. An extraordinary one is egyptian notation from 5th to 7th century. This is one of the first musical notation examples in the western world. There is some sort of synchronization in terms of pitches in this notation. Compare that to its immediate predecessors: medieval illuminations. They differ, and visually it is a stunning document and you can see the detail that it is created with. Medieval music notation was basically a communal and labor intensive process. It wasn"t done from machinery or technology. It was done by scribes who would work together to generate these pieces of sheet music.

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