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Introduces young children to the meaning and use of math words and symbols.
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Is notational “fingerprint” still possible? A few comments on the idiomaticity of the 20th-century notation
The discussion started by the author will be restricted to the Polish compositional output of the second half of the 20th century, with the subject matter covering the idiomaticity of notation as a consequence of modifications arising from the introduction of new compositional techniques and authors’ original formal solutions. The “fingerprint” in the title of the article encompasses not only individual features of notation, in the form of a specific font or shape of particular elements of the notational system, but also solutions of a systemic nature, allowing to copy the texture or form of a composition in a concise manner. The idiomaticity of notation also means visual attractiveness of scores, created under the influence of avant-garde trends in the time when originality in that respect was not limited yet, or even eliminated, by widespread and unifying notation of music notation processors. An additional motivator behind this attempt to characterize the phenomenon was a need for a nostalgic comeback to the decades when the only limitation regarding notation were the limits of a composer’s imagination, and published scores (mainly in the form of facsimiles) bore the composer’s distinctive fingerprint.
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Word events : perspectives on verbal notation
\"Verbal notation has emerged since the 1950s as a prominent medium in the field of experimental music, as well as in related areas of arts practice involving performance and object making... This book examines the use of English grammar in verbal notation, with numerous examples of usage from specific verbal scores. Commentaries explore the compositional strategies and performance practice of particular works in key essays...from composers, artists and performers\"--P. 4 of cover.
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Visualizing Music
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.
eBook
Where sight meets sound : the poetics of late medieval music writing
\"The main function of western musical notation is incidental: it prescribes and records sound. But during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, notation began to take on an aesthetic life all its own. Composers sometimes asked singers to read the music in unusual ways-backwards, upside-down, or at a reduced speed-to produce sounds whose relationship to the written notes is anything but obvious. This book explores innovations in late-medieval music writing as well as how modern scholarship on notation has informed-sometimes erroneously-ideas about the premodern era. By viewing notation as a complex technology that did more than record sound, the book revolutionizes the way we think about music's literate traditions\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Leaping into Dance Literacy through the Language of Dance
The main aim of this book is to present the theory and purpose underpinning the approaches to dance literacy as explored by the Language of Dance® community in the USA and UK. Through their teacher training programs, they are changing the face of dance-based dance literacy using motif notation.
Through their teacher training programs, they are changing the face of dance-based dance literacy using motif notation. This book reveals how dance notation literacy has changed due to practices being focused on constructivist and constructionist pedagogy. Based on work by dance educator Ann Hutchinson Guest and expanded upon by her protégés, this is the first book of its kind to bring together theory, praxis, original research outcomes, taxonomies, model lesson plans, learning domain taxonomies of dance, and voices of dance teachers who have explored using dance notation literacy. We are in a new era for educating with dance notation, focusing on learners' engagement by making connections between the learning domains using constructivist and constructionist learning approaches.
Arts-literate dancers can deepen their dance craft and transfer their arts knowledge, capacities, and skills to lifelong learning. Dance-based dance literacy practices using notation enhance learners' flexibility, adaptability, self-direction, initiative, productivity, responsibility, leadership, and cross-cultural skills.
The book will appeal to dance educators focusing on cognitive and metacognitive learning in dance using communication, problem-solving, and critical thinking.
Useful for preschool and primary teachers aiming to integrate dance into classroom experiences and for secondary teachers teaching dance and looking to upgrade their approach to dance literacy so students are able to achieve higher level cognitive learning, problem solving, and social skills in dance classrooms.
Choreographers and dance teachers will find new approaches to dance making and to expressing their craft using a system that is well codified and now augmented with examples to guide them with making their own projects and processes.
Anyone with an interest in the idea of dance literacy will find concrete examples of how to put their knowledge into practice to advance their teaching and dance making.
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Numerical Notation
This book is a cross-cultural reference volume of all attested numerical notation systems (graphic, non-phonetic systems for representing numbers), encompassing more than 100 such systems used over the past 5,500 years. Using a typology that defies progressive, unilinear evolutionary models of change, Stephen Chrisomalis identifies five basic types of numerical notation systems, using a cultural phylogenetic framework to show relationships between systems and to create a general theory of change in numerical systems. Numerical notation systems are primarily representational systems, not computational technologies. Cognitive factors that help explain how numerical systems change relate to general principles, such as conciseness or avoidance of ambiguity, which apply also to writing systems. The transformation and replacement of numerical notation systems relates to specific social, economic, and technological changes, such as the development of the printing press or the expansion of the global world-system.
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The language of mathematics : the stories behind the symbols
\"Galileo famously wrote that the book of nature is written in mathematical language. The Language of Mathematics is a wide-ranging and beautifully illustrated collection of short, colorful histories of the most commonly used symbols in mathematics, providing readers with an engaging introduction to the origins, evolution, and conceptual meaning of each one. In dozens of lively and informative entries, Raúl Rojas shows how today's mathematics stands on the shoulders of giants, mathematicians from around the world who developed mathematical notation through centuries of collective effort. He tells the stories of such figures as al-Khwarizmi, René Descartes, Joseph-Louis Lagrange, Carl Friedrich Gauss, Augustin-Louis Cauchy, Karl Weierstrass, Sofia Kovalevskaya, David Hilbert, and Kenneth Iverson. Topics range from numbers and variables to sets and functions, constants, and combinatorics. Rojas describes the mathematical problems associated with different symbols and reveals how mathematical notation has sometimes been an accidental process. The entries are self-contained and can be read in any order, each one examining one or two symbols, their history, and the variants they may have had over time. An essential companion for math enthusiasts, The Language of Mathematics shows how mathematics is a living and evolving entity, forever searching for the best symbolism to express relationships between abstract concepts and to convey meaning\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Molecular representations in AI-driven drug discovery: a review and practical guide
The technological advances of the past century, marked by the computer revolution and the advent of high-throughput screening technologies in drug discovery, opened the path to the computational analysis and visualization of bioactive molecules. For this purpose, it became necessary to represent molecules in a syntax that would be readable by computers and understandable by scientists of various fields. A large number of chemical representations have been developed over the years, their numerosity being due to the fast development of computers and the complexity of producing a representation that encompasses all structural and chemical characteristics. We present here some of the most popular electronic molecular and macromolecular representations used in drug discovery, many of which are based on graph representations. Furthermore, we describe applications of these representations in AI-driven drug discovery. Our aim is to provide a brief guide on structural representations that are essential to the practice of AI in drug discovery. This review serves as a guide for researchers who have little experience with the handling of chemical representations and plan to work on applications at the interface of these fields.
Journal Article