1st Edition
Material Cultures of Music Notation New Perspectives on Musical Inscription
Chapter One: Introduction: Notation and/as material culture
Floris Schuiling and Emily Payne
Part I: Epistemologies of notation
Chapter Two: Was 1974 the End of Music History? Universalism, cybernetics, and the International Conference of New Musical Notation
Giulia Accornero
Chapter Three: Encyclopaedias and empty staves: Re-reading music in Hanne Darboven’s Quartett ›88‹
Elaine Fitz Gibbon
Chapter Four: Scoring the listener: Notation and representation in acousmatic music
Patrick Valiquet
Part II: Notation and the body
Chapter Five: The Deaf body beyond music: Music notation by Christine Sun Kim
Chae-Lin Kim
Chapter Six: Music, notation, and embodiment in early sixteenth-century Italian pictures
Tim Shephard and Sanna Raninen
Chapter Seven: The work of notation in the visual culture of medieval devotion
Beth Williamson
Part III: Notation and social relations
Chapter Eight: Jianpu simplified notation and the transnational in musical repertoires of New York’s Chinatown
Joseph S. Kaminski
Chapter Nine: Mediating minstrelsy: Notating instrumental identity in fourteenth-century song
David Maw
Chapter Ten: Inscription, gesture, and social relations: Notation in Karnatak music
Lara Pearson
Part IV: Notation, instruments, and technology
Chapter Eleven: Digital scores, algorithmic agents, and encoded ontologies: On the objects of musical computation
Brian A. Miller
Chapter Twelve: Perforating the subject: The player piano rolls of Conlon Nancarrow
Naomi Woo
Chapter Thirteen: Material bias: David Tudor’s realisations
You Nakai
Chapter Fourteen: ‘I Feel Love’: Music mutation in the electronic age
Kiene Brillenburg Wurth
Biography
Floris Schuiling is Assistant Professor at Utrecht University. His areas of expertise are modern and contemporary music in the Netherlands, especially improvised and experimental music, and the role of technology and material culture in musical creativity,with a focus on performance practices.
Emily Payne is Lecturer in Music at the University of Leeds. Her research interests include performance studies (particularly of post-war music), creativity, collaboration, embodiment, and materiality.
