10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DESCRIPTIVE NOTATION»
Discover the use of
descriptive notation in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
descriptive notation and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Study of Ethnomusicology: Thirty-one Issues and Concepts
The distinction between prescriptive and descriptive notation was Seeger's
terminology for music for performance versus analysis. But there is an obvious
correlate. Typically, outsiders, trying to be “descriptive,” start by writing everything
they ...
2
The Temporal Structure of Estonian Runic Songs
Prescriptive and descriptive notation Seeger (1958) has distinguished between
two kinds of musical notation, prescriptive and descriptive. Prescriptive notation is
usually associated with Western European classical music. Prescriptive notation
...
Jaan Ross, Ilse Lehiste, 2001
3
101 Questions on How to Play Chess
How is descriptive notation different from algebraic notation? In descriptive
notation, each file is named for the piece that stands on it at the beginning of the
game. The name remains constant, even after the pieces have moved away from
their ...
Alternate names for this notation include descriptive notation, English notation,
and English descriptive notation. It is not used often today (most people today
use algebraic chess notation), but is still important for understanding older
textbooks ...
5
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Chess
In this appendix I will explain the other major system for describing chess moves,
called descriptive notation. Descriptive notation is no longer commonly used, but
many older books and magazines still in print use it, and if you want to be able ...
6
Pandolfini's Chess Complete: The Most Comprehensive Guide to ...
Accordingly, each rank in descriptive notation has two names, depending on
which perspective is being used. White's first rank is Black's eighth, White's
second is Black's seventh, White's third is Black's sixth, and so on. When using
descriptive ...
7
Charles Seeger: A Life in American Music
He then delineated the differences between prescriptive and descriptive notation.
Prescriptive notation, which is subjective, aimed at and reflected in performance,
is the type most prevalent in music. Its success or failure hinges on the ...
8
Blindfold Chess: History, Psychology, Techniques, Champions, ...
Unfortunately, Philidor's style of descriptive notation (which is slightly longer)
gained popularity as a rival system—particularly in England and the United
States—and it is only recently that the algebraic system has come into virtually
universal ...
Eliot Hearst, John Knott, 2009
9
Extended
Notation: The Depiction of the Unconventional
Further, descriptive notation completely abandons the utilisation of a notation
system. The action that leads to a sonic result is, in such a case, depicted by
writing it down in the traditional manner24. An example of such a method of
notation is ...
10
The Everything Chess Basics Book
In the old English descriptive notation the files are given the names of the pieces
which occupy the first square on them in the original position. To distinguish the
two sides of the board from one another (right vs. left), those pieces near the king
...
Peter Kurzdorfer, Us Chess Federation, 2003
8 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DESCRIPTIVE NOTATION»
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descriptive notation is used in the context of the following news items.
Garry Kasparov humbled by Westminster peer, but what did the …
Lord Harrison sent me the game in English descriptive notation. I know that many readers were brought up on it, as I was, so in honour of Lord ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Dec 14»
Dominic Lawson host as chess returns to BBC radio after half a …
... week to the next, especially because the moves were given in the now discarded descriptive notation. Next week's listeners will have it easier ... «The Guardian, Dec 13»
Play it by ear: Chess on the radio
In those far-off days, they used English Descriptive notation, of course. If you move your knight on the first move, this can be "Knight to King's ... «The Independent, Dec 13»
Margaret Thatcher: From Grantham to the Falklands
Such descriptive notation, often laid out in copiously detailed footnotes, can make Moore sound more like a recording secretary than a ... «Christian Science Monitor, May 13»
ChessBase 12 – primer on installation and new functions
You can even select descriptive notation, where 1.d4 is displayed as 1.P-Q4. The piece names can be modified or figurine notation chosen, ... «Chessbase News, Feb 13»
Tweaking Fritz - PART 1
Sorry, but the archaic form called "descriptive notation" is not an option in Fritz. Moving on to the box immediately below "Notation", you'll see ... «Chessbase News, May 08»
Fritz trainer: Emanuel Lasker, New York 1924
This was not very difficult since Lasker refers to the moves very clearly (albeit in descriptive notation), probably expecting that there would be a ... «Chessbase News, Apr 07»
ChessBase and Correspondence chess – part 2
... "computer" algebraic (i.e. 1.d2-d4, which displays both the starting and ending squares for a move), or even old-style descriptive notation (i.e. ... «Chessbase News, Mar 07»
