A detailed critical and historical investigation of the development of musical notation as a powerful system of symbolic communication.

An accessible history of how musicians learned to record music discusses the work of five centuries of religious scholars while demonstrating how people develop

Musical notation has not always existed: in the West, musical traditions have often depended on transmission from mouth to ear, and ear to mouth. Although the A

This stimulating Very Short Introduction to music invites us to really think about music and the values and qualities we ascribe to it. The world teems with dif

Music moves through time; it is not static. In order to appreciate music wemust remember what sounds happened, and anticipate what sounds might comenext. This b