MUSC 101 Music Fundamentals - Spring 2012

Unit 2 -Notation Examples

Middle Ages

http://www.southampton.ac.uk/~wpwt/harl978/sumerms.htm

1270's

Illuminated Manuscript unknown. Held in Florence, Italy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:EarlyMusicNotation.JPG

9 Line Staff

http://www.dolmetsch.com/musictheory2.htm

Lute and Guitar Tablature

Italian Tablature, early 1500's

http://pristinemadness.com/files/category-lute.html

Spanish Tablature, 1536

French Lute Tablature, early 1600s, Voice and Lute

http://www.sirbacon.org/graphics/Lover.jpg

German Tablature, 1560's

http://www.music.iastate.edu/antiqua/lute.htm

Modern Guitar Tablature

Example 1

Example 2

Example 3

Example 4

Shape Note Music

http://web.mit.edu/user/i/j/ijs/www/shapenote.html

Piano Roll Notation

Braille Music Notation

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Braillemusicsummary.gif

Aleatoric Music, Music Of Chance

Mark Applebaum, Carleton Alumnus

Electronic Music Notation

Stockhousen Studie II, 1953

[Syllabus]

Revised by John Ellinger, Spring 2012.