Notation Analysis: Motivations, Performance, and Artistic Visualization
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Motivations • Performance • Analysis • Artistic
Common Notations • Modern western notation • Guitar tablature • Klavar notation • Gregorian chant notation • Byzantine chant notation
Common Notations • Modern western notation • Guitar tablature • Klavar notation • Gregorian chant notation • Byzantine chant notation
Common Notations • Modern western notation • Guitar tablature • Klavar notation • Gregorian chant notation • Byzantine chant notation
Common Notations • Modern western notation • Guitar tablature • Klavar notation • Gregorian chant notation • Byzantine chant notation
Common Notations • Modern western notation • Guitar tablature • Klavar notation • Gregorian chant notation • Byzantine chant notation
Byzantine Chant Notation • Liturgical chant of Greek Orthodox Church • Used throughout Byzantine empire (330-1453) • Current use is uncommon • monophonic
Byzantine Chant Notation • 72 notes in octave • Symbols indicate: • Relative pitch change • Manner in which note is sung • Duration of note • One of several modes and a start note picked initially • Microtonal variations important
Development of Western Notation • Textual markup • Gregorian chant notation • Modern notation • Contemporary experimentation
Neume Markup • Used in 10th and 11th centuries • Lines and curves written above text • Indicates rough melodic shape • Memory aid to singers
Gregorian Chant • Developed by Guido d’ Arezzo (990-1150) • Staff + clef indicates pitch • Monophonic • More verbose, but more precise
Modern Notation • Evolved from Gregorian chant • Essentially unchanged since 17th century • Evolved `organically’ • Symbolic graphical language
General Observations • Rich symbolic vocabulary • Flexible notation • Tailored for human perception • Legacy baggage • Not intended for novices
Klavar Notation • Intended for easy piano performance • Invented 1931 – sill in use • Vertical axis for time (top to bottom)
Klavar Notation • Staff lines correspond to piano keys • Vertical distance gives absolute time • Duration inferred from context or with special symbol
Guitar Tablature • Staff lines correspond to strings • Numbers indicate fret • Time is only roughly represented
Music Animation Machine • Shows actions of voices using animation • Intended for beginners
Keysacpes • Shows results of a key-finding algorithm • Displays different window sizes and positions
Dotplots • Matrix of segment distances • Like an adjacency matrix of a graph
Shape of Song • Method of showing repetition within a sequence