musical notation
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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
Then, she transcribes their notes into musical notation.
From New York Times • Jun. 6, 2023
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
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
If the audible version were written out in musical notation it would read like this, with all its ‘dots’ gone.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
