Gesture // Jackson Jenkins

One of the things that I have always been very interested in is musical notation. Throughout history they music has been notated has been changed and modified, and now in modern times we have many different forms of musical notation.

     Chopin's nocturne's show a very specific form of notation. This is probably the most common

  

A very vague form of notation. It only shows you the chords!! Rhythm is not accurately notated.

 This is a slightly more specific form of notation than the last example, but still very open to interpretation. This is very commonly used in Jazz music.

For my project I wanted to try and use gesture as a very nonspecific form of music notation. Like the 2nd example, Rhythm cannot be notated. All that it gives you is the chords, a voicing for the chord and movement from the previous chord to the next.