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(to share scores across different ‘scorewriters’)
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-“music(al) notation” is any ‘system’ used to visually represent ‘aurally perceived music’ played with ‘instruments’ or sung by the ‘human voice’ through the use of (‘written’ / ‘printed’ / ‘otherwise-produced’) symbols–
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(‘types’ + ‘methods’ of notation have varied between ‘cultures’ + throughout ‘history’, and much information about ‘ancient music notation’ is ‘fragmentary’)
(even in the same ‘time period’ (such as in ‘the 2010s’), different styles of ‘music’ + different ‘cultures use different ‘music notation methods’)
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*for example* –>
(for ‘professional classical music performers’, ‘sheet music’ using ‘staves’ + ‘noteheads’ is the most common way of notating ‘music’…
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…but for ‘professional country music session musicians’, the ‘nashville number system’ is the main method)
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(the symbols used include ‘ancient symbols’ + ‘modern symbols’ made upon any media such as symbols that are…)
*’cut’ into ‘stone’*
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*’made’ in ‘clay tablets’*
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*’made’ using a ‘pen’ on ‘papyrus’ / ‘parchment’ / ‘manuscript’ paper’*
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*’printed using a ‘printing press’*
(ca 1400s)
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*printed using a ‘computer printer’)
(ca 1980s)
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(…or other ‘printing’ (or ‘modern copying’) technology)
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(although many ancient cultures used ‘symbols’ to represent ‘melodies’ + ‘rhythms’, none of them were particularly comprehensive, and this has limited today’s understanding of their ‘music’)
(the seeds of what would eventually become ‘modern western notation’ were sown in ‘medieval europe’, starting with the catholic church’s goal for ‘ecclesiastical uniformity’)
(the church began notating ‘plainchant melodies’ so that the same ‘chants’ could be used throughout the ‘church’)
(‘music notation’ developed in the ‘renaissance’ + ‘baroque’ music eras)
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(the introduction of ‘figured bass’ (or “throughbass”) notation in the ‘baroque era’ marked the beginning of the first compositions based around ‘chord progressions’)
(a key method for ‘popular music songwriters in the 1900s + 2000s)
(in the ‘classical period’ (1750–1820) + the ‘romantic music era’ (1820–1900), notation continued to develop as new ‘musical instrument technologies’ were developed)
(in the ‘contemporary classical music’ of the 20th and 21st century, music notation has continued to develop, with the introduction of graphical notation by some modern composers and the use, since the 1980s, of computer-based scorewriter programs for notating music)
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(‘music notation’ has been adapted to many kinds of ‘music’, including…)
‘classical music’
‘popular music’
‘traditional music’
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