...Mark Franko This article explores the history of dance notation from the Renaissance to postmodern dance. It examines the tension between text and oral tradition in Western dance practices, as well as the issue of how to reconcile our views of choreography as both scriptural and visual. It has been...

... and early twentieth centuries. There is no moral obligation to avoid such practices, but one wants singers to be fully aware of what they are doing. This essay provides extensive examples of the kind of autograph notation that signals the obligatory intervention of performers and offers many examples from...

... it was not purely mathematical or cognitive considerations that led to the abandonment of Roman notation. An advantage of using Indian-Arabic-Western ciphers was that doing so left marks that made the accounting needs of modern, international commerce easier to meet. The printing industry also helped to spread...

.... There can be little doubt that there was complicity between singers and instrumentalists, on the one hand, and notated music, on the other, in which the deeper personification of character and rhetoric was to be worked out in per- formance. And when I say “worked out,” I mean improvised. The primary...

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...-grade Quine is adamant that we can ignore the second- grade system when our interests are theoretical. For, he tells us, “the quest of a simplest, clearest, overall pattern of canonical notation [notation, that is, for the first-grade system implicit in Quine’s talk...

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... topics, their contrasting rhetorical registers, and their diverse musical styles. These piquant juxtapositions hint at a musical space that encompasses both the sacred and the secular, troubling a distinction that has long undergirded studies of notated music from the medieval and early modern periods...

... special feature than being mean- ingful” (11). Even in “a play of insignificant notations,” the “play of notations can still be of utility” (though “utility need not imply significance”) (15). In other words, play the game with subtlety, and cross your fingers. And so, let me say what can be said...

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