Document Type

Journal Article

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Faculty

Faculty of Education and Arts

School

Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) / Music Research Group

RAS ID

14442

Comments

This is an Author's Accepted Manuscript of: Vickery, L. R. (2012). The Evolution of Notational Innovations from the Mobile Score to the Screen Score . Organised Sound, 17(2), 128-136. Available here

This article has been published in a revised form in Organised Sound. This version is free to view and download for private research and study only. Not for re-distribution, re-sale or use in derivative works. © Organised Sound.

Abstract

This article examines the evolution of music notational practices from avant-garde-era experiments in ‘mobility’ to the advent of the digital ‘screen score’. It considers the varied goals of the composers who initiated these developments and the dissonance between these goals and the practical possibilities actually afforded by the paper score. The advent of graphical computing is charted along with the consequent expansion of possibilities afforded by screening the score from a platform that also provides the potential for performer coordination, sound synthesis and transformation. The performative, interactive and formal implications of these possibilities are considered.

DOI

10.1017/S1355771812000052

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