Visualizing music

Visualizing music / Eric Isaacson.

"To feel the emotional force of music, we experience it aurally. But how can we convey musical understanding visually? Visualizing Music explores the art of communicating about music through images. Drawing on principles from the fields of vision science and information visualization, Eric Isaa...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Isaacson, Eric J., 1963- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2023]
Series:Musical meaning and interpretation.
Subjects:
Musical analysis.
Music > Charts, diagrams, etc.
Music > Mathematics.
Musical intervals and scales.
Musical notation.
Visualization.
MUSIC / Instruction & Study / Theory.
MATHEMATICS / Graphic Methods.
Music
Music > Mathematics
Musical analysis
Musical intervals and scales
Musical notation
Visualization
Charts, diagrams, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Part 1. Preliminaries. Leveraging the power of the brain ; The role of metaphor ; Multivariate images ; Telling a story ; Facilitating comparison ; Information layers ; Information integration ; Making every part of an image count ; Presenting tabular data ; Small multiples ; Using color ; Additional general principles ; Case study : Western notation
  • Part 2. Musical spaces. Pitch spaces ; Collections, scales, and modes ; The circle of fifths ; The tonnetz ; Atonal spaces ; Symmetrical pitch structures ; Tonal hierarchy, tendency, progression ; The overtone series
  • Part 3. Musical time. Basic durations ; Unmeasured musical time ; Musically measured musical time ; Externally measured musical time (performance timing) ; Proportion
  • Part 4. Pitch, texture, timbre, form. Textual representations of pitch ; Piano roll notation ; Alternate notational systems ; Tuning and temperament ; Microtuning ; Timbre ; Texture ; Voice leading ; Schematic and procedural representations ; Formal models ; Pitch-class set tables ; Instrument ranges ; Translations
  • Part 5. Music analysis. Lutosławski's Jeux venitiens ; Annotating musical scores ; Thematic analysis ; Contour analysis ; Tonal plans ; Symmetry in music analysis ; Rhythmic analysis ; Formal analysis ; Hierarchy in music ; Serialism ; Corpus studies ; Musical chronologies, influences, and styles ; Animation
  • Part 6. Visualization in the professional realm. Conference handouts ; Presentation slideshows ; Conference posters ; Print publication ; The essential visualization toolbox
  • Epilogue.

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