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It is essential to remember that our present musical notation is actually the product of a long process and has changed over time to suit the needs of the composers and musicians in performing the kinds of music they were interested in making. If you know how to read our present notation you can pretty much handle anything from the late seventeenth century until today. Although there are other things you need to know the further you head back and if you find experimental 20th century notations, you are pretty much on your own without specialized knowledge of what the experimenter was trying to do. This book was written to teach its readers about various aspects of musical notation prior to the seventeenth century. There are no bar lines, the note heads are connected in ways that look strange to us, and they are not round. What is all this about? This notation suited the kind of music they were making quite well. However, like all systems, it was kept around a bit too long after music changed. Once it became too cumbersome, the system we now use was born in order to provide greater rhythmic clarity and harmonic complexity. This book was first published in 1941 by the grea

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Author

Willi Apel

Publisher

Mediaeval Academy of America

Published

1961

Language

EN

ISBN

9780910956154

Category

music

Subjects

Music, Arts

Rating

4.8 / 5 (9 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14