Capturing music : the story of notation / Thomas Forrest Kelly.
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TextPublisher: New York : W. W. Norton & Company, 2014Description: 256 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 24 cm + 1 CDContent type: text | still image | spoken word Media type: unmediated | audio Carrier type: volume | audio discISBN: 9780393064964 (hbk.) :Subject(s): Musical notation -- History -- To 1500 | Music | MusicDDC classification: 780.1'48'09 Summary: With clarity Thomas Forrest Kelly tells a story that spans five hundred years, leading the reader on a journey through medieval Europe, showing how we learned to keep track of rhythm, melody and precise pitch with a degree of accuracy previously unimagined. Kelly reveals the technological advances that led us to the system of notation we use today, placing each step of its evolution in its cultural and intellectual context.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
With clarity Thomas Forrest Kelly tells a story that spans five hundred years, leading the reader on a journey through medieval Europe, showing how we learned to keep track of rhythm, melody and precise pitch with a degree of accuracy previously unimagined. Kelly reveals the technological advances that led us to the system of notation we use today, placing each step of its evolution in its cultural and intellectual context.
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