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Graphic score

Score

Sheet music with sketches and images inside the bar lines, communicating what each section should feel like and leaving instrumentation and sound to the performer.

An earlier composition. Instead of notes, the bar lines hold sketches and images that set the feeling of each section; what plays it, and how it sounds, is up to the performer.

Precedents

  • December 1952, Earle Brown. A score made of lines and rectangles, read however the performer chooses.
  • Treatise, Cornelius Cardew. Nearly two hundred pages of graphic notation with no instructions for sound.