Workshop on advanced topics in music notation

Workshops and Research Meetings
March 21, 2011
13:30 - 15:30
A-832, New Music Building, 527 Sherbrooke St. West
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Registration

Registration is required as seating is limited (35 places): Workshop on advanced topics in music notation - registration form

Description

  • INTRO and ENIGMA (20 min.)

Discussion of the importance of respecting notational standards and when to break the rules.

 

  • OVERVIEW OF NOTATION TYPES (30 min.)

Presentation of the essentials, particularities, pros and cons of the various categories of notation types, from traditional and proportional notation to text-based and graphic scores.

 

  • GRAPHIC DESIGN AND TYPOGRAPHY APPLIED TO MUSIC NOTATION (20-30 min.)

Even with only a basic understanding of fundamental graphic design and typography principles, it is possible to greatly enhance the clarity and legibility (and sexiness!) of the score.

 

  • PIMP THIS SCORE (30 min.)

Group analysis and discussion of two of the following (likely 1 and 2):

1) The problematics of representing musical time in horizontal space, using a well known published work as an example.

2) Pros and cons of a composer's original hand-written score vs. its digital version.

3) An excellent quality published score of a key work is compared to my new digital version.

 

  • CLOSING / FEEDBACK (10 min.)

A quick wrap-up to help inform me about the impressions made on the participants by my presentation so that I may improve the presentation format or content for future sessions.

 

  • NOTATIONAL EXTREMES (10 min.) (time permitting) 

We take a look at a rather whimsical graphic score and consider the difficulties which arise from attempts to impose fixed æsthetic and design criteria to such approaches to notation. 


About the presenter, :

In 1999, Chippewa founded Shirling & Nueweise, a company specialized in New Music notation, which collaborates with composers, ensembles and publishers (Mathias Spahlinger, Sebastian Claren, Bernhard Lang, ensemble recherche, PEER Music-Classical, Breitkopf & Härtel). The excellent quality of his work is recognized internationally by his peers, and examples of scores he has prepared appear in Notations 21(Theresa Tisano, ed., 2009). Since 2009, Shirling & Neueweise has been involved in the promotion of the work of Canadian electroacoustic composers Marcelle Deschênes, Gilles Gobeil, David Berezan and Dominique Bassal, resulting in numerous new performances of their works internationally.
 
Since 2005, he is the Administrative co-Director of the Canadian Electroacoustic Community, Canada’s national association for electroacoustic music, and Coordinating Editor for the CEC’s quarterly electronic journal, eContact! His efforts in this position have contributed greatly to an important increase in the CEC’s presence on the international scene.