The horizontal spacing of musical symbols: a brief historical overview

Autor: Michael Talbot
Jazyk: German<br />English<br />French<br />Italian<br />Slovenian
Rok vydání: 2015
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Zdroj: De Musica Disserenda, Vol 5, Iss 1, Pp 33-41 (2015)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1854-3405
2536-2615
DOI: 10.3986/dmd05.1.03
Popis: Over the last 350 years or so the horizontal spacing of notes and rests has moved from a situation where the principle of equidistance between symbols (the most economical of space) is dominant to one in which the precise vertical alignment of musically coincident symbols and, to a smaller extent, the translation of temporal duration into horizontal distance is observed. The paper examines the reason for the change and some of its effects.
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