musical notation
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Another, at Temple University in Philadelphia, will develop an online tool to transcribe early polyphonic music, which consists of multiple independent melodies that are played or sung at the same time, in standard musical notation.
From New York Times • Jan. 10, 2023
But without musical notation, there was no way to do so.
From Washington Post • Jun. 17, 2022
That’s because the score opens with a rest, a musical notation that indicates the absence of sound.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 4, 2022
It may be English as a second language, another spoken language, a language no longer spoken, American Sign Language, Braille, or even musical notation.
From Textbooks • Dec. 21, 2021
The habanera and its contredanse antecedents had a highly distinctive accompanying rhythm of four beats, which in musical notation - as in the opening of the Bizet song - looks like this.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
