Global Notation as a Tool for Cross-Cultural and Comparative Music Analysis
- Submitting institution
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The University of Sheffield
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output identifier
- 6888
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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- Title of journal
- Analytical Approaches to World Music
- Article number
- -
- First page
- 235
- Volume
- 8
- Issue
- 2
- ISSN
- 2158-5296
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
- February
- Year of publication
- 2021
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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http://globalnotation.org.uk/
- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- Yes
- COVID-19 affected output statement
- -
- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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-
- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- This is a multicomponent output consisting of a journal article and a website. The two items present different aspects of Killick’s work on developing a new form of notation to support analysis and comparison of all forms of music. The website presents the notation system itself, starting from first principles and assuming no prior knowledge of any form of music notation or theory. The journal article explains the rationale for the system and the advantages that it offers over what has so far been the most usual approach to notating non-Western musics, modified staff notation. It is addressed to readers who are familiar with staff notation and with key concepts and literature in ethnomusicology and world music analysis. The two items incorporate input from different kinds of potential users and respondents: the website through the “comments” feature and a link to a YouTube video that has also attracted extensive comments largely from outside of academia, and the journal article through written responses from seven senior scholars in world music analysis published in the same issue of the journal. While the article explains enough of the global notation system to illustrate its own arguments—ease of explanation being itself one of the advantages that is claimed—it refers readers to the website for a more complete exposition of the system and a wider range of examples. Thus, although each item can be read independently, the two items support each other and amount to a unified research contribution.
- Author contribution statement
- -
- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
- -
