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"At the start of the lesson, I would go through how to play the musical notation, and then the lesson would just be silent focus on trying to learn this musical notation," he says.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
Ms. Chan examines the process by which scales and music notation came to the page.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026
Basically, it’s just choice of notation, the hanging on notes, which comes across much better when we play live.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 20, 2025
“Dorico’s not totally perfect if you have super weird stuff like harp notation or complicated percussion staves. You might have to hand-tweak those after they’re in the new system,” said Pogue.
From Slate ● Sep. 26, 2024
Unfortunately, the Greeks and Romans hated zero so much that they clung to their own Egyptian-like notation rather than convert to the Babylonian system, even though the Babylonian system was easier to use.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
One suspects that there were few professional narrators up to the task of articulating so many numbers and notations and technical nuances.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
Bourne wasn't sure how Scott-Warren would respond to the Holinshed notations, describing him as "very conservative" when it comes to reaching such verdicts.
From Science Daily ● May 15, 2024
Pedro’s notations, though repetitious and even tedious, opened my eyes to his meticulous nature, the way he viewed each dollar as one that couldn’t fall through the cracks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 26, 2024
Amid all the praise, criticism, helpful notations and humorous color, Slagle’s voice is notably absent.
From Salon ● Dec. 18, 2023
But book after book disappointed her—they all seemed to be journals of plant life, notations about tonics or medicines.
From "Huntress" by Malinda Lo
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Jim Burke's Academic Vocabulary List
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The ACT Math Test: Number and Quantity
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Music - Introductory
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