Visualizing Music

Eric Isaacson is Associate Professor of Music Theory at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music and a faculty member in the Indiana University Cognitive Science Program.

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsAccessing Audiovisual MaterialsIntroductionPart 1: Preliminaries1. Leveraging the Power of the Brain2. The Role of Metaphor3. Multivariate Images4. Telling a Story5. Facilitating Comparison6. Information Layers7. Information Integration8. Making Every Part of an Image Count9. Presenting Tabular Data10. Small Multiples11. Using Color12. Additional General Principles13. Case Study: Western NotationPart 2: Musical Spaces14. Pitch Spaces15. Collections, Scales, and Modes16. The Circle of Fifths17. The Tonnetz18. Atonal Spaces19. Symmetrical Pitch Structures20. Tonal Hierarchy, Tendency, Progression21. The Overtone SeriesPart 3: Musical Time22. Basic Durations23. Unmeasured Musical Time24. Musically Measured Musical Time25. Externally Measured Musical Time (Performance Timing)26. ProportionPart 4: Pitch, Texture, Timbre, Form27. Textual Representations of Pitch28. Piano Roll Notation29. Alternate Notational Systems30. Tuning and Temperament31. Microtuning32. Timbre33. Texture34. Voice Leading35. Schematic and Procedural Representations36. Formal Models37. Pitch-Class Set Tables38. Instrument Ranges39. TranslationsPart 5: Music Analysis40. Lutosławksi's Jeux Venitiens41. Annotating Musical Scores42. Thematic Analysis43. Contour Analysis44. Tonal Plans45. Symmetry in Music Analysis46. Rhythmic Analysis47. Formal Analysis48. Hierarchy in Music49. Serialism50. Corpus Studies51. Musical Chronologies, Influences, and Styles52. AnimationPart 6: Visualization in the Professional Realm53. Conference Handouts54. Presentation Slide Shows55. Conference Posters56. Print Publication57. The Essential Visualization ToolboxEpilogueBibliographyIndex

"Visualizing Music provides a rich visual overview of the discipline of music theory while offering practical suggestions for scholars."—Timothy Koozin, Moores School of Music, University of Houston