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The article explores ideas about how writing down musical thoughts on paper can be viewed as part of the creative process of composing.
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The article presents the first detailed exploration of Ferruccio Busoni's views about music notation in response to musical modernism. It reveals parallels to the ideas of Arnold Schoenberg and documents reactions of subsequent generations of composers/theorists.
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This page is a summary of: Between Composition and Transcription: Ferruccio Busoni and Music Notation, twentieth century music, March 2014, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/s1478572213000145.
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