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"To feel the emotional force of music, we experience it aurally. But how can we convey musical understanding visually? Visualizing Music explores the art of communicating about music through images. Drawing on principles from the fields of vision science and information visualization, Eric Isaacson describes how graphical images can help us understand music. By explaining the history of music visualizations through the lens of human perception and cognition, Isaacson offers a guide to understanding what makes musical images effective or ineffective and provides readers with extensive principles and strategies to create excellent images of their own. Illustrated with over 300 diagrams from both historical and modern sources, including examples and theories from Western art music, world music, and jazz, folk, and popular music, Visualizing Music explores the decisions made around image creation. Together with an extensive online supplement and dozens of redrawings that show the impact of effective techniques, Visualizing Music is a captivating guide to thinking differently about design that will help music scholars better understand the power of musical images, thereby shifting the ephemeral to material"-- Provided by publisher.

"Visualizing Music explores the art of communicating about music through images. Drawing on principles from the fields of vision science and information visualization, Eric Isaacson reveals that musical images leverage metaphors to help us understand music. By explaining the history of music visualizations through the lens of human perception and cognition, Isaacson offers a guide to understanding what makes musical images effective or ineffective. Illustrated with over 300 images from both historical and modern sources, including examples and theories from Western art music, world music, and popular music, Visualizing Music explores the decisions made around image creation. Together with an extensive online supplement and dozens of redrawings that show the impact of effective techniques, Visualizing Music is a captivating guide to thinking differently about design that will help music scholars better understand the power of musical images, thereby shifting the ephemeral to material"-- Provided by publisher.

Part 1. Preliminaries. Leveraging the Power of the Brain ; The Role of Metaphor ; Multivariate Images ; Telling a Story ; Facilitating Comparison ; Information Layers ; Information Integration ; Making Every Part of an Image Count ; Presenting Tabular Data ; Small Multiples ; Using Color ; Additional General Principles ; Case Study : Western Notation

Part 2. Musical Spaces. Pitch Spaces ; Collections, Scales, and Modes ; The Circle of Fifths ; The Tonnetz ; Atonal Spaces ; Symmetrical Pitch Structures ; Tonal Hierarchy, Tendency, Progression ; The Overtone Series

Part 3. Musical Time. Basic Durations ; Unmeasured Musical Time ; Musically Measured Musical Time ; Externally Measured Musical Time (Performance Timing) Chapter 26 Proportion

Part 4. Pitch, Texture, Timbre, Form. Textual Representations of Pitch ; Piano Roll Notation ; Alternate Notational Systems ; Tuning and Temperament ; Microtuning ; Timbre ; Texture ; Voice Leading ; Schematic and Procedural Representations ; Formal Models ; Pitch-Class Set Tables ; Instrument Ranges ; Translations

Part 5. Music Analysis. Lutosławski's Jeux Venitiens ; Annotating Musical Scores ; Thematic Analysis ; Contour Analysis ; Tonal Plans ; Symmetry in Music Analysis ; Rhythmic Analysis ; Formal Analysis ; Hierarchy in Music ; Serialism ; Corpus Studies ; Musical Chronologies, Influences, and Styles ; Animation

Part 6. Visualization in the Professional Realm. Conference Handouts ; Presentation Slideshows ; Conference Posters ; Print Publication ; The Essential Visualization Toolbox

Epilogue.

Music > Mathematics.

Music > Mathematics.

Music > Charts, diagrams, etc.