musical notation
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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
Illuminated pages of a 15th-century choir book with the Latin Mass shine with retrospective glory; the leaves, with their early forms of musical notation, prefigure the evolution of Western art music.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 10, 2018
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
