Category 6. Recent Music
The burden of extending the boundaries of notated sound to include effects that previously could not be differentiated in print has fallen to some degree on noteheads. The stemmed Xs of drum notation offer a prime example.
In Ex. #39 the diamond noteheads are of special interest.
Ex. #39. Diamond noteheads in Donald Aird's "The Good News Service" (Berkeley, Fallen Leaf Press, 1992) as typeset by Alan Talbot using the Graphire music printing system. This example appeared in Computing in Musicology 9 (1994), 177.
In Ex. #40 stemless noteheads and other non-traditional configurations of objects are shown.
Ex. #40. Stemless noteheads and other non-traditional notations typeset by Keith Hamel using MusScribe. This example was shown in the Directory of Computer Assisted Research in Musicology 4 (1988), 65.
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