Where Sight Meets Sound

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Where Sight Meets Sound is written by Emily Zazulia and published by Oxford University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0197551939 (ISBN 10) and 9780197551936 (ISBN 13).

Late-medieval composers delighted in complicating the relationship between their music's written and sung forms, often tasking singers with reading their music in unusual ways-from slowing down a melodic line, to turning it backwards or upside down, even omitting certain notes or rests. These manipulations increasingly yielded music that was aurally all but unrecognizable as a derivative of the notated original. This book uses these unorthodox applications of notation to understand how late-medieval composers thought about the tool of musical notation. It argues that these compositions foreground notation in ways that resonate with discourses about media and technology today.