Una nueva aproximación a la escritura musical: el concepto de notación interpretativa

Abstract

In this text I introduce a new perspective on musical notation that I call interpretative notation, which can be added to the well-known descriptive and prescriptive musical notations. First I introduce and illustrate descriptive and prescriptive notations. Afterwards, I introduce interpretative notations illustrating them by means of a traditional work. Finally, I illustrate the use of interpretative notations in three examples chosen from contemporary music. I choose works that introduce new graphic signs for music notation in order to make them easily identifiable. Scores from traditional repertoire employ a musical language that is so well known by composers and performers that interpretative notations become almost unidentifiable. In works that propose different and less known ways of constructing compositional ideas, however, this type of interpretative notation reveals how relevant it can be, insofar as it may be the main means of understanding the musical discourse.