History of Musical Notation

Here is the Bibliography of the History of Musical Notation Video

This week we delve into the history of Musical Notation. How did we go from squiggles over text to the complex system we use today? We find out in this video...


History of Musical Notation Bibliography

Bent, Ian D. “Evolution of Western Staff Notation.” Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica, inc., December 18, 2019. https://www.britannica.com/art/musical-notation/Evolution-of-Western-staff-notation.


Burkholder, James Peter, Donald Jay Grout, and Claude V. Palisca. A History of Western Music. New York ; London: W.W. Norton et Company, 2019. Pgs. 32-39.


Burtneron, Matthew. “Making Noise: Extended Techniques after Experimentalism.” NewMusicBox. NewMusicBox, March 1, 2005. https://nmbx.newmusicusa.org/making-noise-extended-techniques-after-experimentalism/.


DeLoi, Anna, and M. Jennifer Bloxam. “Polyphonic Music Notation in 1487.” Obrecht Mass. Accessed April 18, 2020. https://sites.williams.edu/obrechtmass/era/notation/.


“Extended Technique.” Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, April 15, 2020. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_technique.


“Gregorian Chant - Classical Music.” Google Sites. Accessed April 18, 2020. https://sites.google.com/site/classicalmusic15/gregorian-chant.


“How Was Musical Notation Invented? A Brief History: How To Classical.” WQXR, June 15, 2017. https://www.wqxr.org/story/how-was-musical-notation-invented-brief-history/.


Leone, ~ F. D. “Serialism, Indeterminacy, Musique Concrète and Minimalism.” Musica Kaleidoskopea, March 3, 2017. https://fdleone.com/2014/03/25/serialism-indeterminacy-musique-concrete-and-minimalism/.


“Medieval Music.” Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, April 2, 2020. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_music.


“Mensural Notation.” Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, January 31, 2020. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mensural_notation.


“Musical Notation.” Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, April 10, 2020. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_notation.


“Musical System of Ancient Greece.” Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, December 20, 2019. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_system_of_ancient_Greece.


“Neume.” Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, April 11, 2020. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neume.


“Rhythmic Mode.” Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, April 15, 2020. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhythmic_mode.


“Seikilos Epitaph.” Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, April 11, 2020. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seikilos_epitaph.


The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. “Mensural Notation.” Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica, inc., October 21, 2016. https://www.britannica.com/art/mensural-notation.



Free Stuff - Motion Graphics // VFX Footage. “Music Notes floating from Microphone // Color Variation 01” YouTube Video, 3:00. https://youtu.be/mMrpudsC2CY






Photos

By Nationalmuseets fotograf - Nationalmuseet, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=23255222


Music Note Clip Art 

https://www.pinclipart.com/downpngs/Toxbm_clipart-music-note-clipart-black-and-white-png/


Chopin Polonaise in A-flat major, Op.53,  IMSLP.org

https://imslp.org/wiki/Polonaise_in_A-flat_major%2C_Op.53_(Chopin%2C_Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric)


Guido D’Arezzo Music Staff

https://nashgazette.wordpress.com/2016/08/12/guido-darezzos-notes/


“Detail from the first page of the manuscript of the "Ricercar a 6" BWV 1079 by Johann Sebastian Bach, 1747. (Berlin State Library, Germany)” 

https://indianapublicmedia.org/harmonia/all-the-way-round-to-bach.php


“Krzysztof Penderecki’s “Polymorphia” (Ex Tempore)”

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/5-12-examples-of-experimental-music-notation-92223646/