![]() of Allegro, violin 1 (dotted quarters on same stem as undotted quarters) Schmidt), III, last chord, violins & viola (dotted halfs on same stem as undotted quarters) Amy Beach: Piano Quintet in F-sharp Minor, Op.Bartok: Sonata for Solo Violin (Boosey & Hawkes ed.), I (double-dotted quarters on same stem as undotted quarters).See also Byrd (2010).Ī lengthy table of features of CMN appears in Byrd & Isaacson (2016), and where possible, items below are cross-referenced to entries in that table. Webpage shows and discusses in some detail particularly interesting examples of both. My "Gallery of Interesting Music Notation" ![]() ![]() However, the dividing line between extremes and rule-breaking isn't always clear. That collection concentrates not on rule-breaking notation but on extreme usage of notation within the rules, e.g., shortest and longest note durations, most complex tuplet, most independent voices on a staff, earliest use of fff. A related collection of examples of unusual music notation is myĮxtremes of Conventional Music Notation webpage. My dissertation comments that "this collection is far from exhaustive: it is based on an examination of a minute fraction of the relevant musical literature." The same statement applies to this supplement.īyrd (1994) discusses a handful of these counterexamples. They cast doubt on the idea that CMN can be easily mechanized by breaking many of the supposed rules of music notation, including some that (in my experience) few musicians would expect to see any exceptions to, especially in works like these. These examples are virtually all from music published by respectable publishers, and the vast majority are by well-known, mainstream composers. I restrict CMN to the period from about 1700 to 1935. (The term "counterexample" is borrowed from mathematics and mathematical logic.) As that section states, these are "examples of published music.intended to counter the view that CMN, while it may have many complex details, is in principle easily mechanizable". 2.5 of my dissertation, Music Notation by Computer (Byrd, 1984). This is a supplement to the list of "counterexamples" in Sec. More Counterexamples in Conventional Music Notation More Counterexamples in Conventional Music Notation
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