musical notation
Example Sentences
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Eschewing Western musical notation, Mr. Smith developed a system that sometimes encapsulates compositions within paintings.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026
Crumb considered the art of musical notation his sole parallel talent to composing, referring to it as “musical calligraphy.”
From Washington Post • Feb. 8, 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
Schoolteacher Hildegarde Withers uses a musical notation on a blackboard to solve the murder of a young colleague.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 16, 2020
The letters looked like clothes hung out to dry on a line and they looked more like musical notation than writing.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
