musical notation
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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
Eschewing Western musical notation, Mr. Smith developed a system that sometimes encapsulates compositions within paintings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
Another, at Temple University in Philadelphia, will develop an online tool to transcribe early polyphonic music, which consists of multiple independent melodies that are played or sung at the same time, in standard musical notation.
From New York Times ● Jan. 10, 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
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
