extremes within cmn music 253/cs 275a stanford university
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Extremes within CMN
Music 253/CS 275A
Stanford University
Common Music Notation (CMN)
Pitch 8va indicators Ossia readings (ed.) Ornaments Articulation marks Finger numbers Lyrics
Durations (monophonic) Tuplets Dots not WYSIWYG
Durations (polyphonic)
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Simple within one program; often omitted in data translation
Large number of complex situations
http://www.ccarh.org/publications/reprints/ieee/
Duration and Alignment
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Poly-sub-meters: 2:3, 3:4 Beethoven: “Harp” Quartet
Duration and alignment
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4:5:6 (vertical) in 3/4 (triple meter) Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde: “Die Abschied”
Duration and Alignment
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Szymanowski: Songs of the Infatuated Muezzin, No. 47:1, 6:1, 5:1 (horizontal)
Lyrics=Polish, French, German
Aleatoric contexts
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Irregular metersIrregular subdivisionsAd libitum passages
Text underlay: alignment
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Bach chorale
Lyrics (and text) in non-Roman scripts
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Masato Yako (1998): Shamisen intro for nagauta play
Shamisen neumes:Shape: presence/absence of pitch or vocal qualityDirection of curvature: pitch variationAngle between neumes: pitch changeLength of neume: durationThickness: voice intensity, tone
Grammar of vocal and instrumental parts
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Text extendersB. Marcello: cantata
Multi-bar rest
Grammar of vocal and instrumental parts
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Text extendersB. Marcello: cantata
Multi-bar rest
Beethoven: 7th Symphony
Clarinet No. 1 (in A)Multi-bar restsCue-sized notes
Vertical spacing extras (basso continuo)
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Basso continuo figuration Handel: Ottone, “Bel labbro formato
Vertical spacing extras (ornamentation)
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C. Ph. E. Bach
Stems and beams (non-coincident)
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Slurs (collisions)
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J. S. Bach
Slur and beam extremes
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Left: very high slursBelow: very long slur
Follow the clef changes!
Slurs (multi-octave, inverted, et al.)
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Ravel: “Gaspard de la nuit”