Analysis beyond Notation in XXth and XXIst Century Music. Introduction

Abstract

The present dossier collects contributions of scholars from various European countries who are interested in different aspects of XXth and XXIst century music. The starting point for the essays presented here was a session we organized during the Eight EuroMAC, entitled “Analysis beyond Notation in XXth and XXIst Century Music” (University of Leuven, 17-20 September 2014). Our aim was to present and to reflect on the different modes of graphic representation of sound phenomena without the use of staff notation which, particularly from the second half of the XXth century onwards, have been elaborated both for compositional and analytical aims. By gathering together popular music scholars, ethnomusicologists, and musicologists to discuss these matters from an interdisciplinary point of view, the dossier intends to set an agenda of shared problems and questions, as well as to propose strategies and techniques to address these issues across different repertoires and genres.