Chapter One: Introduction: Notation and/as material culture

Floris Schuiling and Emily Payne

Part I: Epistemologies of notation

Chapter Two: Was 1974 the End of Music History? Universalism, cybernetics, and the International Conference of New Musical Notation

Giulia Accornero

Chapter Three: Encyclopaedias and empty staves: Re-reading music in Hanne Darboven’s Quartett ?88?

Elaine Fitz Gibbon

Chapter Four: Scoring the listener: Notation and representation in acousmatic music

Patrick Valiquet

Part II: Notation and the body

Chapter Five: The Deaf body beyond music: Music notation by Christine Sun Kim

Chae-Lin Kim

Chapter Six: Music, notation, and embodiment in early sixteenth-century Italian pictures

Tim Shephard and Sanna Raninen

Chapter Seven: The work of notation in the visual culture of medieval devotion

Beth Williamson

Part III: Notation and social relations

Chapter Eight: Jianpu simplified notation and the transnational in musical repertoires of New York’s Chinatown

Joseph S. Kaminski

Chapter Nine: Mediating minstrelsy: Notating instrumental identity in fourteenth-century song

David Maw

Chapter Ten: Inscription, gesture, and social relations: Notation in Karnatak music

Lara Pearson

Part IV: Notation, instruments, and technology

Chapter Eleven: Digital scores, algorithmic agents, and encoded ontologies: On the objects of musical computation

Brian A. Miller

Chapter Twelve: Perforating the subject: The player piano rolls of Conlon Nancarrow

Naomi Woo

Chapter Thirteen: Material bias: David Tudor’s realisations

You Nakai

Chapter Fourteen: ‘I Feel Love’: Music mutation in the electronic age

Kiene Brillenburg Wurth