Music Notation Modernization Association  |  1985-2007

Proceedings of the Fourth MNMA Conference

Cebu City, Philippines, 1997

Edited by Thomas S. Reed (2000) Paperback (164 pp.)

ISBN 0-9638849-4-8, LC 00-91048, ISSN 1094-4486

Contains papers presented at the Fourth International MNMA Conference held in Cebu City, Philippines, 1997

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Table of Contents

Title Author
Page
Acknowledgments, Conference Program  
iii
Photo of Conference Members on a Tour of Cebu  
iv
Photos of the Conference  
vi
Preface Thomas S. Reed
1
Who Will Benefit from a Better Notation System? Thomas S. Reed
5
The Teaching Experience in the Six-Six System Johannes Beyreuther
11
Three Families of 13-Degree Staves Blake M. Mitchell
15
Nature's Harmonic Series Anne and Bill Collins
35
An Expanded System of Duration Symbols Blake M. Mitchell
43
The Big Error! Johannes Beyreuther
49
Ornaments in New Notation Systems Thomas S. Reed
53
     

Notation Road Test


(directed by T.S. Reed)


59

1. List of Inventors

 
64

2. The Chromatic Scale in 36 New Systems

Thomas S. Reed
65

3. Grouping the systems by line-pattern

Doug Keislar
102

4. The Musical Example by J. S. Bach, in traditional notation

 
107

5. The J. S. Bach Example Transnotated into 36 New Systems

T. S. Reed
108

6. Specification Sheet for the Manuscript Paper

Michael Johnston
148

7. Filled-out Evaluation Forms

 
146

 

 

Exploring alternative
music notation systems.