Paulo De Assis

Sound and Score: Essays on Sound, Score, and Notation - Orpheus Institute Paulo De Assis

Publisher Marketing: Sound and Score brings together music expertise from prominent international researchers and performers to explore the intimate relations between sound and score and the artistic possibilities that this relationship yields for performers, composers and listeners. Considering notation as the totality of words, signs, and symbols encountered on the road to an accurate and effective performance of music, this book embraces different styles and periods in a comprehensive understanding of the complex relations between invisible sound and mute notation, between aural perception and visual representation, and between the concreteness of sound and the iconic essence of notation. Three main perspectives structure the analysis: a conceptual approach that offers contributions from different fields of enquiry (history, musicology, semiotics), a practical one that takes the skilled body as its point of departure (written by performers), and finally an experimental perspective that challenges state-of-the-art practices, including transdisciplinary approaches in the crossroads to visual arts and dance." Contributor Bio:  De Assis, Paulo Paulo de Assis is a trained concert pianist, a musicologist, and Senior Researcher at the Orpheus Institute. Contributor Bio:  Brooks, William Bill Brooks is CEO of The Brooks Group, one of the world's premiere resources for sales and business leadership. He is a renowned corporate coach, consultant, speaker, and the author of fifteen books. Contributor Bio:  Coessens, Kathleen Kathleen Coessens is Senior Researcher at the Orpheus Institute and Professor and Postdoctoral Researcher at Vrije Universiteit Brussel.