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SUMMARY:Can Layout and Engraving Rules Affect the  Readability of Musical 
 Scores?  - Arild Stenberg\, University of Cambridge
DTSTART:20160511T160000Z
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CONTACT:Lucian Stephenson
DESCRIPTION:This talk will present the results from a series of experiment
 s looking into the influence of graphic design on the readability of music
 al scores: these results seem to show that the legibility of a score can b
 e modified by including in it visual cues that refer to the underlying str
 ucture of the music\, thus eliciting form participants readings with less 
 errors and more temporal stability.\n\nIn the initial experiments several 
 modifications in terms of layout\, motif separation and note spacing were 
 included as part of the design of the novel scores\, and in the final expe
 riment the effect of each of these modifications individually was analysed
 \, showing that the most significant factor was the chunking of material i
 nto spatially separated motifs.\n\nFinally\, a possible comparison with th
 e history of the conventions for the transcription of natural languages wi
 ll be proposed\, mainly focusing on the transition from ancient Scriptura 
 Continua to word separation and the uses of space in text formatting.\n\n*
 Arild Stenberg* is a final-year PhD candidate at the Faculty of Music\, Un
 iversity of Cambridge\, where he has been working at the Centre for Music 
 and Science under the supervision of Professor I. Cross. His interest in n
 otation and score design comes from his experience as composer and conduct
 or\, and from his interest in the parallels between the cognition of music
  and natural languages.\n
LOCATION:Faculty of Education\, 184 Hills Road\, Cambridge\, CB2 8PQ\, DMB
 \, Room GS4
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