>hi,
>
>can anyone recommend some composers who drew their scores instead of
>using traditional musical notation?
>
>thanks,
>
>samantha
Here's what I know.
Franz Liszt and Olivier Messaien both saw coloured musical notes. Messaien
has a
composition titled, Couleurs de la Cite Celeste.
Maryanne McPartland, jazz pianist, sees notes in colour.
In the latter half of the eleventh century, Rudolph of St.Trond tried to
introduce a notational system which represented the modes of plainsong--
which he mistakenly identified with the ancient Greek modes--by colours;
Dorian in red, Phrygian in green, Lydian in yellow and Mixolydian in purple.
He failed.
Around 1492, Franchino Gaffurio tried re-introducing colourized Greek modal
music: Dorian = crystaline colour; Phrygian = orange; Lydian = red; and
Mixolydian = an "undefined mixed colour". No takers.
There is a 1517 lute manuscript which has note-duration notated via colour:
an 8th note = red; a 16th note = blue; a 32nd = yellow/green.
And then there is Athanasius Kircher around 1646, and Marin Cureau de la
Chambre, in 1650. David Gottlob Diez 1723 produced a system corresponding
colours, planets, and musical tones. These guys are not strictly composers
just wannabes.
Newton and Euler both proposed colour/musical note correspondences as did
Louis Bertrand Castel who around 1742 thought about the construction of a
clavecin oculaire, a light-organ, as a new musical instrument which would
simultaneously produce both sound and the "correct" associated colour for
each note. The Russian, Theremin, did something similar.
Check out Paul Hertz at Northwestern http://collaboratory.nunet.net/phertz/
he may be able to help you with parametric spaces for musical composition
(all twelve tones of the western diatonic scale can be mapped on to an
ignoquad) . Or, the MIT Synesthesia Lab might be able to point you in the
right direction. I'm sure you'll hit paydirt because there have got to be a
lot of mixed media/computer projects around.
//Van
>
>can anyone recommend some composers who drew their scores instead of
>using traditional musical notation?
>
>thanks,
>
>samantha
Here's what I know.
Franz Liszt and Olivier Messaien both saw coloured musical notes. Messaien
has a
composition titled, Couleurs de la Cite Celeste.
Maryanne McPartland, jazz pianist, sees notes in colour.
In the latter half of the eleventh century, Rudolph of St.Trond tried to
introduce a notational system which represented the modes of plainsong--
which he mistakenly identified with the ancient Greek modes--by colours;
Dorian in red, Phrygian in green, Lydian in yellow and Mixolydian in purple.
He failed.
Around 1492, Franchino Gaffurio tried re-introducing colourized Greek modal
music: Dorian = crystaline colour; Phrygian = orange; Lydian = red; and
Mixolydian = an "undefined mixed colour". No takers.
There is a 1517 lute manuscript which has note-duration notated via colour:
an 8th note = red; a 16th note = blue; a 32nd = yellow/green.
And then there is Athanasius Kircher around 1646, and Marin Cureau de la
Chambre, in 1650. David Gottlob Diez 1723 produced a system corresponding
colours, planets, and musical tones. These guys are not strictly composers
just wannabes.
Newton and Euler both proposed colour/musical note correspondences as did
Louis Bertrand Castel who around 1742 thought about the construction of a
clavecin oculaire, a light-organ, as a new musical instrument which would
simultaneously produce both sound and the "correct" associated colour for
each note. The Russian, Theremin, did something similar.
Check out Paul Hertz at Northwestern http://collaboratory.nunet.net/phertz/
he may be able to help you with parametric spaces for musical composition
(all twelve tones of the western diatonic scale can be mapped on to an
ignoquad) . Or, the MIT Synesthesia Lab might be able to point you in the
right direction. I'm sure you'll hit paydirt because there have got to be a
lot of mixed media/computer projects around.
//Van