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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Visualizing Music provides a rich visual overview of the discipline of music theory while offering practical suggestions for scholars."—Timothy Koozin, Moores School of Music, University of Houston
Table of ContentsPreface
Acknowledgments
Accessing Audiovisual Materials
Introduction
Part 1: Preliminaries
1. Leveraging the Power of the Brain
2. The Role of Metaphor
3. Multivariate Images
4. Telling a Story
5. Facilitating Comparison
6. Information Layers
7. Information Integration
8. Making Every Part of an Image Count
9. Presenting Tabular Data
10. Small Multiples
11. Using Color
12. Additional General Principles
13. Case Study: Western Notation
Part 2: Musical Spaces
14. Pitch Spaces
15. Collections, Scales, and Modes
16. The Circle of Fifths
17. The Tonnetz
18. Atonal Spaces
19. Symmetrical Pitch Structures
20. Tonal Hierarchy, Tendency, Progression
21. The Overtone Series
Part 3: Musical Time
22. Basic Durations
23. Unmeasured Musical Time
24. Musically Measured Musical Time
25. Externally Measured Musical Time (Performance Timing)
26. Proportion
Part 4: Pitch, Texture, Timbre, Form
27. Textual Representations of Pitch
28. Piano Roll Notation
29. Alternate Notational Systems
30. Tuning and Temperament
31. Microtuning
32. Timbre
33. Texture
34. Voice Leading
35. Schematic and Procedural Representations
36. Formal Models
37. Pitch-Class Set Tables
38. Instrument Ranges
39. Translations
Part 5: Music Analysis
40. Lutosławksi's Jeux Venitiens
41. Annotating Musical Scores
42. Thematic Analysis
43. Contour Analysis
44. Tonal Plans
45. Symmetry in Music Analysis
46. Rhythmic Analysis
47. Formal Analysis
48. Hierarchy in Music
49. Serialism
50. Corpus Studies
51. Musical Chronologies, Influences, and Styles
52. Animation
Part 6: Visualization in the Professional Realm
53. Conference Handouts
54. Presentation Slide Shows
55. Conference Posters
56. Print Publication
57. The Essential Visualization Toolbox
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index
