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Ian D. Bent
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LOCATION: United States
Honorary Professor in the History of Music Theory, University of Cambridge, and Emeritus Professor of Music, Columbia University. Author of Musical Analysis in the Nineteenth Century; text editor of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (6th and 7th ed.).
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Musical notation, visual record of heard or imagined musical sound, or a set of visual instructions for performance of music. It usually takes written or printed form and is a conscious, comparatively laborious process. Its use is occasioned by one of two motives: as an aid to memory or as…
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