When I was an untutored rock musician, I envied my colleagues who could read and write music notation. They could access and study material that literally was a closed book to me. So, at one point in ...

After you have input your composition into your notation software, it is worthwhile reviewing the timbres and textures of your composition and considering whether they are effective or not. You might ...

Notation close notationThe musical symbols used when writing music down. is used to write down music. It's one way to remember what you have composed close composeTo write your own music.. It's also ...

The Grand Staff. Treble Clef on upper staff; Bass Clef on lower staff (image: wikipedia) The curving flourishes of music notation have always been something a mystery to me, although every day I, like ...

While not officially part of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the Music Notation community group formed earlier this year appears to have every chance of finally standardising Western music ...

The score for John Cage’s indeterminate composition “Fontana Mix” (image: BBC Radio 3) With the development of music notation, music was set free from the delicate bonds of oral and aural traditions.

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Music notation is at best a compromise, at worst a lie. In western culture a five-line stave suspending a pattern of ...

Last month I introduced the ABC music notation system. This month, I continue our tour of notation programs for Linux with a look at the Common Music Notation system from composer/programmer Bill ...