Graphic Score Music Examples. Conventional western notation lead sheets with chords graphic scores collections of pictures and other symbols are some examples. A graphic score uses uses images shapes and pictures instead of notes.
Debussy Clair de Lune piano solo 000511 Tchaikovsky Dance of the Sugarplum Fairy 000213 Frog round ver. Graphic notation or graphic score is the representation of music through the use of visual symbols outside the realm of traditional music notationGraphic notation became popular in the 1950s and can be used either in combination with or instead of traditional music notation. A graphic score uses uses images shapes and pictures instead of notes.
The earliest example of a full-blown graphic score is Morton Feldmans Projection 1 1950 for solo cello.
It might look like random squiggles but each line indicates a different style of singing notated in wavy lines in ten different colors and the black squares indicate non specified non-musical sounds. It is a very easy way of notating music and there are a number of different ways of teaching and using it. Graphic scores are a way of writing down sounds. Tes Global Ltd is registered in England Company No 02017289 with its registered office at 26 Red Lion Square London WC1R 4HQ.