NOTATIO

Hi everyone, thank you for all your contributions. I apologise if I wasn't clear enough in my first post, but as @octo has explained I meant books and texts which deal more with the philosophical discussion of notation rather than techniques. Texts which explore the philosophers' view of notation ra...

I am looking to collate the various academic books, papers, essays, and presentations concerning music notation. Please post any you can think of: I will go first... Book Contemporary music notation: semiotic and aesthetic aspects by Andrea Valle 2018, Paper The Notation of Time, James Ingram 1985,

@OCTO I would be very interested in seeing and hearing your own music. Is there somewhere online vendor or publisher I can find you?
If you don't wish to put your personal details in public you could send me a private message in the forum.

If there is no way to notate an idea in standard notation, then I say go for it, but explain carefully what you want. Otherwise, why re-invent the wheel? I totally agree. If each composer finds a solution to an individual problem, performers will have to learn the new notation system for each work.

AlanPerrin, your initial post was about "to achieve more distinct notation" - I understood that you want to notate something (even Beethoven) in 'illustrator' to achieve this goal. You would be correct. I was interested in seeing what people were doing. I imagine there are a myriad of dif...

Actually, it is not the standard notation. It is not me who defines it, but it is defined by the music engraving standards found in numerous books of the standard notation practices. These books are written by scholars in the field of music notation. There are numerous dissertations and thesis on t...

I know that Jacques Zafra ( https://jacqueszafra.wixsite.com/composer ) uses Adobe Illustrator for making all parts of his scores: zafra_forpiccolo.jpg And for anyone interested he even has a few videos (in spanish) in a playlist about using Illustrator: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdhLOLMk81Q&...

I know that Jacques Zafra ( https://jacqueszafra.wixsite.com/composer ) uses Adobe Illustrator for making all parts of his scores: zafra_forpiccolo.jpg And for anyone interested he even has a few videos (in spanish) in a playlist about using Illustrator: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdhLOLMk81Q&a...

With the emphasis on applications and software such as Sibelius, Finale, lilypond, etc. I have found in my notational practice a move more towards using Adobe Illustrator to achieve more distinct notation. Does anyone else here use what could be seen as more unconventional tools for digital notation...