First MNMA Conference Proceedings

Norwich, England, 1988

Edited by Thomas S. Reed (1991) Paperback (120 pp.)

Contains papers presented at the First International MNMA Conference held in Norwich, England, 1988

This historic conference on new systems of music notation, the first of its kind in the 20th century, brought together speakers from eleven countries. A variety of new notation systems were presented, including a shorthand system, a microtonal system, aleatoric methods, and systems capable of substituting for traditional notation.  Most of the lectures were published in full, and most were also illustrated.

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Table of Contents
Title	Author	Page
Twenty-First Century Music Theory and Notation	Thomas S. Reed	1
100 Students Learn the Piano Through the Klavarskribo Music Notation in Hong Kong (a description of Methods, Materials and Results)	Peter Spurrier Jackson	20
Towards a Standard Keyboard Staff	Richard Parncutt	31
Piano Patterns: Outline Notation - a link with Staff Notation	Annemarie Scheltema	32
Accidentals in a New Musical Notation	Delia Mugnaini Robotti	37
Graphical Control Strategies of Aleatory Music Notation	Giorgio Tedde	41
Revised Music Notation with Electronic Music Technology as a Combined System	Mario Koppers	53
Accidentals, Musical Function and Intonation	Richard Parncutt	54
The Four-Level Six-Six Keyboard	Paul Vandervoort	58
A New Notational System and Traditional Harmonic Theory	Mario Koppers	59
Funzionalita Storica Contenutistica Della Notazione Musicale	Italo Ruggero Muci	60
From a Special to a General Notation	Leo de Vries	61
Music in a Graph	Albert Brennink	88
A New System of Musical Shorthand	John Asher	100
Applications of the Chromatic Alphabet in the Notation of Music	Robert Stuckey and Richard Parncutt	104
A Symmetrical Notation for Microtones	Leo de Vries	110
Summing-up the 1988 Norwich Conference	Ronald Watson	116