NOTATIO

John, if you haven't read it yet, I think you would enjoy James Grier's 1996 book "The Critical Editing of Music," which deals with many of these issues. (Not so much the performance practice aspect, but certainly the editing.) Used copies are generally pretty cheap, but it's on Archive.or...

db322014 wrote: ↑15 Apr 2025, 20:36 So, how can I add that rectangular enclosure? (didn't even know that was possible...)

benwiggy wrote: ↑12 Apr 2025, 09:52 we used to draw a pair of glasses into the copies as an instruction to 'watch' the conductor or otherwise pay more attention than usual.

Yep, eyeglasses typically mean to watch the conductor, not a page turn.

Interesting! Looks like MSS basically became SCORE. The parameter structure changed a bit from MSS to SCORE, but SCORE also held all the properties of any element in terms of "P values." Here are the first few parameters in SCORE 3.0.

Cool, I hadn't seen this, thanks!!!

A few more examples from the English translation of the Karkoschka book Notation in New Music.
(This book has gotten insanely expensive!!! I paid $15 for my ex-library copy, LOL!)

The Risatti book is not expensive. Lots of cheap copies around $10 on AbeBooks and eBay. It's a pretty useful resource IMO if anyone is interested in picking up a copy.

I just realized that whole Risatti book is available on Archive.org. You have to be logged in to "borrow" it. Here's the link:
https://archive.org/details/newmusicvoc ... a/mode/2up

The publication date of the Risatti book is 1975, so obviously all the examples he cites are prior to that. 76: Miroglio, Francis. Phases (1968) 32-B: Curran, Alvin S. Thursday Afternoon (1967) 59-B: Kilar, Wojciech. Générique (1964) 9: Benvenuti, Arrigo. Folia (1963) 111-B: Serocki, Kazimierz. Segm...

Here are a few pages from Christian Dimpker's book Extended Notation: The Depiction of the Unconventional (2013): Notatio-1.jpg Notatio-2.jpg Here's a page from Howard Risatti's book New Music Vocabulary: A Guide to Notation Signs for Contemporary Music (1975): Notatio-3.jpg In that book all the num...