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Extremes within CMN Music 253/CS 275A Stanford University
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Common Music Notation (CMN) Pitch 8va indicators Ossia readings (ed.) Ornaments Articulation marks Finger numbers Lyrics Durations (monophonic) Tuplets Dots not WYSIWYG Durations (polyphonic) CS 275A/Music 2532016 Eleanor Selfridge-Field2 Simple within one program; often omitted in data translation Large number of complex situations http://www.ccarh.org/publications/reprints/ieee/
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Duration and Alignment CS 275A/Music 2532016 Eleanor Selfridge-Field3 Poly-sub-meters: 2:3, 3:4 Beethoven: “Harp” Quartet
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Duration and alignment CS 275A/Music 2532016 Eleanor Selfridge-Field4 4:5:6 (vertical) in 3/4 (triple meter) Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde: “Die Abschied”
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Duration and Alignment CS 275A/Music 2532016 Eleanor Selfridge-Field5 Szymanowski: Songs of the Infatuated Muezzin, No. 4 7:1, 6:1, 5:1 (horizontal) Lyrics=Polish, French, German
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Aleatoric contexts CS 275A/Music 2532016 Eleanor Selfridge-Field6 Irregular meters Irregular subdivisions Ad libitum passages
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Text underlay: alignment CS 275A/Music 2532016 Eleanor Selfridge-Field7 Bach chorale
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Lyrics (and text) in non-Roman scripts CS 275A/Music 2532016 Eleanor Selfridge-Field8 Masato Yako (1998): Shamisen intro for nagauta play Shamisen neumes: Shape: presence/absence of pitch or vocal quality Direction of curvature: pitch variation Angle between neumes: pitch change Length of neume: duration Thickness: voice intensity, tone
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Grammar of vocal and instrumental parts CS 275A/Music 2532016 Eleanor Selfridge-Field9 Text extenders B. Marcello: cantata Multi-bar rest Incipit
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Grammar of vocal and instrumental parts CS 275A/Music 2532016 Eleanor Selfridge-Field10 Text extenders B. Marcello: cantata Multi-bar rest Beethoven: 7 th Symphony Clarinet No. 1 (in A) Multi-bar rests Cue-sized notes
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Vertical spacing extras (basso continuo) CS 275A/Music 2532016 Eleanor Selfridge-Field11 Basso continuo figuration Handel: Ottone, “Bel labbro formato Numerical shorthand for harmonization
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Vertical spacing extras (ornamentation) CS 275A/Music 2532016 Eleanor Selfridge-Field12 C. Ph. E. Bach Problems of simultaneity (affecting vertical space)
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Stems and beams (non-coincident) CS 275A/Music 2532016 Eleanor Selfridge-Field13
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Slurs (collisions) CS 275A/Music 2532016 Eleanor Selfridge-Field14 J. S. Bach
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Slur and beam extremes CS 275A/Music 2532016 Eleanor Selfridge-Field15 Left: very high slurs Below: very long slur Note the clef changes!
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Slurs (multi-octave, inverted, et al.) CS 275A/Music 2532016 Eleanor Selfridge-Field16 Ravel: “Gaspard de la nuit”
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