Beyond MIDI¶
Selfridge-Field, E. (1997). Beyond MIDI: The Handbook of Musical Codes. MIT Press.
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- Serialization
- Writing and literacy: oral knowledge serialized into written text; the move from oral to literate culture is the development of a serialization format for cultural knowledge that travels across time and geography. Music notation: a performance serialized into a score that travels and is reconstructed by a sight-reading musician; staff notation, tablature, and MIDI trade encoding fidelity against ease of decoding.
This sourceSurveys music-representation codes (staff notation, MIDI, and others), analyzing what each encoding captures and loses (e.g. pitch/rhythm vs. timbre and expressive nuance) — the fidelity tradeoff of serializing a performance into a score and reconstructing it.
- Writing and literacy: oral knowledge serialized into written text; the move from oral to literate culture is the development of a serialization format for cultural knowledge that travels across time and geography. Music notation: a performance serialized into a score that travels and is reconstructed by a sight-reading musician; staff notation, tablature, and MIDI trade encoding fidelity against ease of decoding.
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