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Musical notation in the Beneventan zone is attested in a brief explicit in a manuscript datable to 948-49. Other safely datable local testimonies to the practice of writing music have survived from about 40 years later; by the turn of millennium there are enough documents to all…

When Danish composer Per Nørgård discovered the visually arresting sketches of the schizophrenic Swiss artist Adolf Wölfli in 1979, he felt as though his vision of an “ideal world” had been challenged and thus became completely engrossed in the life and works of Wölfli. Nørgård’…

This thesis asks what transcriptions of old-time fiddle tunes might tell us about their underlying purposes and the nature of transcription. How could differing approaches to transcription reflect the intentions of the author, and what are those intentions? What does this sugges…