The following article presents a status report on the development of five of the most active notation software projects for Linux. Most of them are works in progress, but all are well along on their ...

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Composers from a variety of backgrounds have been interested in having greater freedom in musical performances. This article describes another attempt in this tradition. In his Klavierstcke, Karlheinz ...

Learning to play a new instrument can be exciting, filled with hopes of playing great songs and even composing your own music. Picking up a guitar for the first time leads to a big question: what's ...

A music notation is an almost impossibly complicated bit of drawing. Calling it a map or a diagram does not quite do the trick. Its lines encode mechanisms for the planning, composition, analysis, ...

Notion 4 is a full-blown, unlimited and friendly musical notation editor at an entry-level price. When I first heard that Notion Music had dropped the price of its musical notation editor and scoring ...

An 1844 religiously inspired songbook that uses shape notes to help people read music got a major update recently and it ...

A MODERN writer has declared that the orthodox musical notation is “in some of its elements, foolishly illogical and unnecessarily complicated” (W. II. Anderson, in “The Musical Companion”, Gollancz, ...

from Oxford University highlights how, although music evolved 500,000 years ago, speech and language started developing a mere 200,000 years ago. It’s clear that the neural networks of both music and ...

Duke is launching a new minor targeted towards all music lovers, regardless of whether they can read musical notation. The department of music will begin offering the minor in music, listening-focused ...

Annals of Dyslexia, Vol. 48 (1998), pp. 137-154 (18 pages) Both the alphabet and our system of musical notation are largely based on arbitrary conventions and associations. Conforming to the Dyslexic ...