Grove: Crumb, Notation

Use the questions to guide your note-taking. Do not quote verbatim from the book without putting quotes around it. When taking the quiz, try to paraphrase as much as possible, but if you have to use something verbatim, use quotation marks and cite the source.

questions:

1) Who were Crumb's teachers?

2) What unusual playing techniques does Crumb require in his music?

3) Whose poetry does Crumb often set?

4) What caused a move away from conventional notation?

5) What is action notation?

6) Summarize the uses of graph notation.

7) What is frame notation?

8) Summarize how notation has worked with electronic music.

9) What is a melograph and what is it for?

10) What are Crumb's common compositional techniques?