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The objective of this portfolio is to develop a system of notation and compose neoliturgical music featuring the handpan. Until this point, no means of written communication has been in place to express advanced handpan techniques in printed sheet music. My process in researchin…

The word Canto means so many things, but they are all related either to a praise to something that deserves a vocal or poetic form, or the edge and cut of an object. A book, most of the time, contains the poetic and the cut, and sometimes, as monks and reciters know, the voice.

The history of conventional Western musical notation (CWN) is littered with proposals for ways to either radically improve or replace its longstanding system of staff-based notation. Yet, despite wide consensus that CWN is flawed, none of these alternative systems have caught on…