ABSTRACT
This chapter shows the notation of a particular material in music and landscape architecture: sound. It deals with a detailed study of the notation of the English composer Michael Finnissy's composition, English Country-Tunes from 1977, focusing on the first movement within it, Green Meadows. The chapter examines the strategies utilised in the composition of a notation that addresses notions of landscape in a musical work, creating a notation titled Pink Elephants. In examining Finnissy's Green Meadows in the film Pink Elephants one find that new and complex forms of musical time, far beyond those of pre-twentieth-century music, can, in fact, be notated. The film 655 from 2013, examines landscape through the prism of the natural world, the Girraween National Park in Queensland, Australia. Intriguingly, William Kent's use of visual references from both real places and idealised ones resonates with Finnissy's use of equivalent sources for his evocation of landscape in Green Meadows.
