Word events

"Verbal notation has emerged since the 1950s as a prominent medium in the field of experimental music, as well as in related areas of arts practice involving performance and object making ... This book examines the use of English grammar in verbal notation, with numerous examples of usage from specific verbal scores. Commentaries explore the compositional strategies and performance practice of particular works, and this discussion is contextualized in key essays ... together with many statements and interviews from composers, artists and performers"--Cover, p. [4].