This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Literacy in music has changed dramatically over the 11 centuries of music notation. Initially, music notation was used as a memory aid, ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s notebook What is the purpose of a poem, an illustration or a nonsensical phrase in a score? If it makes musicians stop and think, that’s a ...

Earlier this year a story ran in the UK press which revealed that it was Heather Mills who taught her daughter music, not her ex-husband, Sir Paul McCartney, because he cannot read music notation.