Sketching Musical Compositions
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چکیده
Sketches form an integral part of activities ranging from games through explanatory dialogues to doodles. They are also known to be important in the creative stages of design. This paper explores the role of sketching in musical composition. We discuss the historical correlation between changes in graphical notations for music and compositional practice. Contemporary music technologies provide powerful graphical notations that double as control interfaces. Nonetheless we present survey evidence that sketching still plays a key role in the creative process even amongst technically literate contemporary composers. A detailed case study illustrates how sketching supports a dynamic interplay between drawing spaces, semantic frames and compositional frames that aids revision and re-interpretation of musical ideas.
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