Event overview
Dr Andrew Killick presents on universal descriptive music notation
As early as 1971, Mantle Hood wrote in his book The Ethnomusicologist of “the chronic problem, transcription of non-Western music, and the chronic solution, ‘doctored’ Western notation”. Half a century later, ethnomusicologists still generally rely on the “chronic solution” despite repeated acknowledgements of its limitations. This presentation describes an alternative approach to the “chronic problem”, one that starts, not from the built-in assumptions of an existing notation system, but from a “blank slate” on which the notator can inscribe only the information that is wanted for the purposes of the notation. The system, while still in development, is explained in more detail on the website globalnotation.org.uk.
Andrew Killick is Reader in Ethnomusicology at the University of Sheffield. He has published on Korean traditional music, ethnomusicological theory and method and world music pedagogy.
The Music Research Series is designed to help postgraduate students advance their research and careers. The events stimulate exchange, hones skills, facilitates the creation of professional networks and helps to consolidate the department’s postgraduate community, all over a glass of wine! Attendance is strongly recommended for all postgraduate students (MA, MMus and PGR) in Music but of course undergraduates, music researchers, and visitors from across the college and the community are also most welcome to these public lectures.
Image: Arram-Samai Bayyati
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 19 Mar 2019 | 5:30pm - 7:00pm |
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