TY - JOUR AU - Schedel, Margaret AU - Bressan, Federica PY - 2019/12/15 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Notation for an Electric Stage: Twenty Years of Writing about Notation and a Thought Experiment. With additional commentary about Preservation JF - Musica/Tecnologia JA - MT VL - 13 IS - 1 SE - Articles DO - 10.13128/music_tec-11164 UR - https://oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/mt/article/view/11164 SP - 85-101 AB - <p>This paper is a sprawling document covering practical issues about music notation with more theoretical implications of notation. A distinction between reperformance and preservation is elucidated, and a thought experiment of how to notate a time-based light sculpture (László Moholy-Nagy’s Light Prop for an Electric Stage) encourages readers to think about notation as removed from sonic content. It is vital for composers to create notation that goes beyond the notes, so that pieces involving media can be re-performed in addition to creating an informed archive of the initial state(s) of the work as mediated by the composer themselves. <span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span></p> ER -