Music Faculty Lecture Series: Christine Boone – Song Without Sound: Did Notation Kill Music?

This last music faculty lecture of the fall 2018 semester will feature UNC Asheville Assistant Professor of Music and vocalist Christine Boone. Her talk takes place at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 27 in Karpen Hall, Laurel Forum. This event is free and open to everyone. Boone provides this description:

Song Without Sound: Did Notation Kill Music?

For centuries, songs were passed down orally from person to person. Musical notation was developed as a memory aid, so that performers could more faithfully reproduce songs in the way they had learned them. Singing a melody at sight, then, became an important and time-saving skill for a musician to cultivate. This talk outlines the historical development of musical notation and sight singing, and investigates both the benefits of these advances as well as drawbacks resulting from the hardening of music into a less flexible type of art.

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