Directory Of Music Notation Proposals

This book may be of interest to anyone who is involved with reading or writing music. In the Directory are over 500 proposals to improve the familiar music notation currently used around the world. An attempt has been made to categorise and evaluate the many proposals according to a series of criteria (or screens). Therefore, the Directory is not merely an alphabetical listing of inventors of musical notation proposals, but rather a guide to those systems that meet certain criteria considered desirable in a music notation system for general use.

"A compilation of some alternative systems of music notation that have been proposed in the past several hundred years up through the present"--First leaf.

"Thomas S. Reed is a longtime resident of Kirksville, Missouri and former piano technician at Truman State University. He has made it his life's work to find an alternative to the traditional staff used to notate music. His accomplishments include publishing periodicals on the subject, inventing alternative forms of music notation, founding an international organization dedicated to the topic, publishing a directory of music notation proposals, and much more. This thesis documents these achievements while discussing the history of the traditional staff, its weaknesses, and the logic behind creating a new system of music notation"--Abstract.

1. In an open field -- 2. A parallel history of time in music and landscape -- 3. Horizons -- 4. Clouds -- 5. Meadows -- 6. Busoni's garden.