Description: "Music notations are drawings, of course, but how can we determine exactly what kind of drawing they may be? And what other drawing methods are in use that can illuminate what is happening in a music notation? How do we explain the persistence of this extraordinary visualizing system? David Griffin explores the coding that musical notation offers"--
Brief description: Marsha Meskimmon is Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History & Theory at Loughborough University, UK.
Review Quotes: "We hear music; we see images. Musicians read staff notation as the rest of us read pictures - and we take such complex literacies - 'visualcies' is a better word - for granted. This book takes them apart; jolting our complacency by exploring the possibilities of alternative visual notation systems designed to bridge that sensory gap between hearing and seeing. A pioneering study of the graphic possibilities for the visual representation of music." --Howard Riley, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, UK