In the 1950s progressive composers broke from the 5 line music staff to experiment with new, more expressive forms of graphic music notation Jimmy Stamp The score for John Cage’s indeterminate ...

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 ...

When time's a ticking, the best music notation software will help you to get the job done fast. You know the, ahem, score – nothing in life is more fleeting than a good creative idea. So, when ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...

A manuscript documenting what experts think is the earliest known written example of modern Western music has been discovered ...

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 ...

A few weeks ago I promised to bring in some more general news from the world of Linux audio software development. Alas, my plans were ambushed by the happy intrusion of the release of Renoise for ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...