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A verse without music is a mill without water.
Folquet de Marselh (Marseilles), the troubadour immortalized by Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) in his Paradiso
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Common music notation :: Shape notes :: About limitations and extensions of common music notation :: Accordions :: Tablatures
Early Western Music Notation :: Small Letteral Notation :: Non-Western Music Notation
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Common music notation

  • The Major Orchestra Librarians' Association Guidelines for Music Preparation
  • Suggestions for preparing orchestral scores and parts
  • Staff Notes Articles
  • The Notation of Time by James Ingram.
  • Infothek about music notation and the physics of music.
  • Treblis Software's Music Notation Reference Guide
  • The Big Site of Music Notation and Engraving
  • Manual music engraving
  • Computing in Musicology including examples of music notation
  • The seven parameters of musical notation by Gary Daum
  • Musical notation - a general summary

    • 2

    Shape notes

  • Shape notes are a special form of notehead (see also previous lesson).
  • Several examples of Sacred Harp music notation.

    • 3

    About limitations and extensions of common music notation

  • Link to the Music Notation Modernization Association.
  • Symbolic Extensions and its Corruption of Music by Barton McLean (1981).
  • Meloz music tablature is a music notation proposal that is specifically designed keyboard instruments.
  • Dan Lindgren developed a new notation system, Nydana Notation, to simplify reading of keyboard instrument musical notation.
  • The search for a notation index - Harold Barlow and Sam Morgenstern - by Niclas Fogwall

    • 4

    Accordions

  • European notation style described on users.pandora.be/accordion.

    • 5.1

    Tablature: Diatonic accordions

  • Proposition d'une notation standard pour l'accordéon diatonique.
  • museLi produces and prints diatonic accordion tablatures.
  • An explanation of the CADB system used in Brittany (Bretagne). CADB is the Collectif Accordéon Diatonique de Bretagne
  • A comprehensive site about the Irish button accordion
  • Trekharmonica muziek provides examples of another type of diatonic tablature.

    • 5.2

    Tablature: Konzertina notation

  • Konzertina notation.
  • Chemnitzer Concertina Music Site
  • Chemnitzer concertina notation is explained at the Concertina Music Score Sample page.

    • 5.3

    Tablature: Guitar

  • Music Notation Guide
  • Guitar music theory including music notation
  • Guitar tablature proposal

    • 5.4

    Tablature: Harmonica

  • Harmonica/Harp Tablature

    • 6

    Early Western Music notation

  • Transcribing and Reading White Mensural Notation by raybro.
  • NEumed Unicode Manuscript Encoding Standard
  • The Neume Notation Project by Louis W. G. Barton
  • An Early Music Glossary.
  • Die Intervall-Chiffren-Schrift des Hermann von Altshausen by Wolfram Benz.
  • Gregorian Chant Notation
  • Gregorian Notation

    • 7

    Small Letteral notation

  • Sister Betsy recorded the Music of Angels using a Shaker notational system known as small letteral notation.

    • 8

    General: Non-Western Music notation

  • Encyclopaedia Britannica's East Asian Arts - Music
  • Music in Our World describes music in many different world cultures.
  • Ethnomusicology Research Digest
  • Sargam Editor, an editor written in Java for notating North Indian Classical Music by John Rothfield.

    • 8.1

    Indian music notation

  • Books on Indian Classical Music & Dance
  • Musical notation in North India

    • 8.2

    African music

  • African music in based on equidistant scales with, for example, 5 or 7 steps. The rhythm can be described using a poly- or hetero-metric based on elementary pulsation.
  • August Schmidhofer, in his article entitled African Music, does not discuss native African music notation but he does suggest that some music cannot be described using only common music notation.

    • 8.3

    Arabian music notation

  • Arabian music includes complicated microtonal relationships that cannot be notated using common music notation. August Schmidhofer discusses the scales and quarter tone approximation in Arabische Musik (maqam, wazn, taqsim, ud, tar, nuba, dhikr)
  • Maqam books

    • 8.4

    Turkish music notation

  • Selections from Turkish Music
  • Traditional Art Music
  • Definition of makam and Turkish koma accidentals

    • 8.5

    Chinese music notation

  • www.cultureofchina.com states that there is no standard notation for Chinese music. The various methods may be grouped under: pitch system, descriptive system, hand-and-finger system, Kung Ch'e system, rhythmic recitation and numerical system.
  • C.C. Evans Chinese Music pages present the Guqin and its Music using Wen Zi Pu (Character Notation) and Jian Zi Pu (Abbreviated Character Notation)
  • See also "Positions of the notes" on C.C. Evans chinese music pages
  • August Schmidhofer's article Chinese music (music theory, erhu, pipa, yangqin, guzheng, dizi, sheng, Peking-Opera) considers Chinese scales and instruments but without notation.

    • 8.6

    Byzantine Music notation

  • A Simple introduction to Byzantine musical notation.
  • Reading Psalmodia an introduction to Modern Byantine Musical notation.
  • EBYPES project web site on Byzantine chant notation typography contains a lot of related information
  • BYZWRITER is a system for writing Byzantine Music Notation.
  • Monumenta Musicae Byzantinae

    • 8.7

    Ancient Egyptian music notation

  • Coptic Music Web Site

    • 8.8

    Indonesian Music notation

  • August Schmidhofer's article Indonesian Music (Gamelan, pelog and slendro, angklung, krontjong) examines Indonesian scales and instruments but without notation.

    • 8.9

    Kinko Ryu shakuhachi notation

  • For examples of images
  • Music notation symbols for Macintosh and Windows from the comprehensive www.shakuhachi.com site.
  • John Singer provides a comprehensive Shakuhachi site.

    • 8.10

    Doumbek notation

  • Doumbek notation and rhythm is described at Kamuran's Doumbek Rhythm Guide. This notation is used for doumbek (dumbec, dumbek, dumbeq...) and related instruments such as the tabla, djembe and ashiko.

    • 8.11

    Okinawan notation

  • Glossary of terms for Okinawa performing arts.

    • 8.12

    Shamisen notation

  • When the shamisen accompanies a singer the fundamental pitch is set by the singer. Consequently, shamisen notation indicates interval, or ma, rather than pitch.

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