@NotationIsGreat #MusicalNotation is Beautiful
A very brief introduction to the notation of the Ars Subtilior... including scores shaped as harps, and hearts!

https://youtu.be/uH0vBVW9SYE?si=erBKwhPR36eGauxM (7:57)

A musical notation question ... I've been digitizing some handwritten scores for a klezmer workshop, all pieces by this old NY violinist Israel J. Hochman, and he often has the habit of writing a slur or line across the first two notes of triplets. Does it mean anything in particular about how it should be played?

#Tibetan #MusicalNotation Is Beautiful
https://www.openculture.com/2025/06/behold-tibetan-musical-notation-is-beautiful.html
Religions take the cast and hue of the cultures in which they find root. This was certainly true in #Tibet when #Buddhism arrived in the 7th century. It transformed and was transformed by the native religion of Bon. Of the many creative practices that arose from this synthesis, Tibetan Buddhist music ranks very highly in importance
#musique
#notationdelamusique

we'll see your hemidemisemiquaver, and raise you… #hemidemisemquaver #quasihemidemisemiquaver #128thNote #MusicalNotation #MusicMonday #MusicEducation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundred_twenty-eighth_note

"A Geek’s Wildest Deams" -- thanks to a library! :) https://www.endangeredalphabets.com/2024/09/10/a-geeks-wildest-deams/ #writing #script #musicalnotation #manuscripts #Cambridge #UniversityLibrary

Update on #Diorite! I have started laying out the basics of the spec. If anyone wants to chime in, please feel free to do so!

https://github.com/TKK13909/diorite

I have just published a #GitHub repo that lays out an idea I have had for a little while. I would love to get a little team together to try and make it a reality!

My goal is to create a file format similar to #Markdown that can be used to create #musical notation similar to #Lilypond. I am still trying to figure out what direction I want to take it though so any help would be appreciated!

https://github.com/TKK13909/diorite

So an old friend of mine just released the website of a new Open Source musical notation softare project, FrankenScore. It is based on a previous brainchild of his, Igor Engraver. If you're interested in musical notation you should check it out: https://www.ooloi.org/

I'm not sure how to best explain how awesome everything is to you guys but here's

the introduction for musicians: https://www.ooloi.org/introduction-for-musicians.html

the introduction for programmers: https://www.ooloi.org/introduction-for-programmers.html

the introduction for anti-capitalists: https://www.ooloi.org/introduction-for-anti-capitalists.html

There is also a technical comparison to Finale and Sibelius, but I'm sure if you have read this far, you'll find the link on your own.

Just out of curiosity:
In "Yuve Yuve Yu" by The Hu, there's a part where a violin or similar instrument is made to sound like a neighing horse.

How does one write that in musical notation?
Do we actually have symbols for this or did someone just write: "goes horse mode here ↑"?

Finally finished this long video essay that I started yesterday excuse the clickbait, if you know Tantacrul he's actually a very thoughtful critic.

I'd recommend skipping the 10 minute intro where he uses chess notation as an analogy. In the rest he explores the criticism of standard #MusicalNotation and assesses a long list of historical and current proposed systems to replace it, everything from 19th c German ones to current tech "disruptor" nonsense.
#MusicTheory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eq3bUFgEcb4

https://youtu.be/Eq3bUFgEcb4

Awesome. #MusicalNotation #YouTube

I always wondered in which category I fall with my disdain of musical notation and my happiness with https://planetware.de/tune_in/Buch/farbmusik.html

If you are a software developer or a product manager, a UI/UX designer, or a musician or composer, then this vlog about the 2-year-plus development of #MuseScore 4, a popular open source musical notation application, is very insightful and informative.

https://youtu.be/Qct6LKbneKQ

Dieter Schnebel: Visible Music II: Zeitbilder, Solo für einen Dirigenten/time pictures, solo for a conductor, 1961-62. More information: Dreher, Thomas: "Après John Cage": Zeit in der Kunst der sechziger Jahre. In: Bischoff, Ulrich (ed.): Kunst als Grenzbeschreitung: John Cage und die Moderne. Cat. of exhib. Staatsgalerie moderner Kunst, Munich 1991, p.61f., ill.4. PDF: https://dreher.netzliteratur.net/2_Cage.pdf #dieterschnebel #fluxus #fluxusartist #thomasdreher #musicalnotation #sixtiesmusic #performanceart

when transcribing music, remember to put frequency on a log scale and time on a linear one, not the other way around
#xkcd #music #MusicalNotation

https://xkcd.com/2788/

Amazing #MuseScore 4 Sounds So #Heavy !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfO_BVRlE0U&ab_channel=BenLevin

Here is Frank Converse's "Operatic Jig" from his 1865 book "Banjo Without a Master," arranged and transposed to modern gCGBD tuning.

"The Yellow Book," as it is often called to distinguish it from Converse's other 1865 book, was an interesting attempt at _truly_ instructing an aspiring player how to play every note of every song without the benefit of a teacher.

Instead of the usual tutor format of some "rudiments of music" frontmatter followed by straighforward arrangements of tunes, Converse breaks every measure of every tune down in *excruciating* detail, painstakingly describing in plain English what the standard notation means.

You can see what he was going for, but you can also see why he dropped this approach for all of his future publications.

This is a stroke style arrangement, and the `+` and `1` instructions under the staff are right-hand instructions, indicating whether the note is to be played with the thumb ("+") or the index finger ("1").