Sounds as They Are: The unwritten music in classical recordings

In a recording, what sounds count as music? Sounds made by a musician's body—including inhales, finger taps, and grunts—have for decades been dismissed as extraneous noises. In Sounds as They Are: The unwritten music in classical recordings, author Richard Beaudoin pioneers a field of inquiry into non-notated sounds in recordings of classical music, recognizing often-overlooked sounds made by the bodies of performers and their recording equipment as music.

Beaudoin classifies such sounds via...