musical notation
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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
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
But in general, it just would not have occurred to them that having musical notation mattered.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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