Introduction

This chapter introduces how digital technology is transforming the music score. The purpose is to understand how the digital score presents a different set of propositions and signatures to the notion of a music score and therefore is considered as a new type of music communications interface worthy of its own tradition of inquiry. The first section discusses the nature of the term digital and overviews ways in which it has transformed the notion of a music score. The next section analyses the digital score as a transformational creative space for music-making. It outlines many of the creative concerns and activities associated with the digital score and highlights the transformations of practice that are discussed in detail in later chapters. It concludes with an outline of some of the problems, complexities, redundancies and entropies of the digital score.