Two composers will make a short tour of Denton to speak and teach about graphic annotation — the artistic rendering of music scores that function both as visual art and scores musicians can read and play from.

Denton composer Lynn Job and New York composer and author Theresa Sauer will spend some time with University of North Texas composition students before speaking at several Denton social spots.

The focal point of the speaking tour is Notations 21, Sauer’s anthology of graphic scores. The book shows examples of scores that can stand alone as visual art, but can also be played by a tenacious, open-minded musician.

In addition to composing and writing, Sauer is also a published and award-winning piano teacher. She earned her master’s degree in musicology from Long Island University. Sauer launched Notations 21 at the Chelsea Art Museum in New York City, directing a concert and lecture series there last year. She also mounted an exhibit of original scores from the book at the Hutchins Gallery in New York earlier this year.

Job, a UNT alumna, owns the Denton-based Buckthorn Music Press. She licensed her commissioned poster and art score “Anchored in Perath” for use in Notations 21. This organ piece is also a limited-edition print Job produced through her press.

Job and Sauer will speak during the “Music Now” series at the UNT College of Music at 11 a.m. today. The presentation will be in the Merrill Ellis Intermedia Theatre in the Music Building, at the intersection of Avenue C and Chestnut Street. The presentation is open to the public.

The composers will present a lecture from 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. today at Art Six Coffee House, 424 Bryan St.

Job and Sauer will make another presentation from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. Tuesday at Big Mike’s Coffee Shop, 1306 W. Hickory St.

Musicians are invited to bring their instruments and play from the scores at the coffeehouse presentations.