Many people feel that western notation makes it unnecessarily hard to read music. If we want to sight read, learn music theory or just practice an instrument, surely there's a better way? Right? This has been a hot topic for almost 1000 years... AND I PUT IT TO BED RIGHT HERE!
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--------- CHAPTERS ---------
00:00 - Setting the stage
09:26 - Notation must die INTRO!
15:12 - Ancient Greek notation
19:40 - The history of western notation
31:57 - Chromatic staves
36:15 - The piano roll
42:54 - Clefs (and resistance to change)
44:42 - Muto method
46:45 - Notation & the aristocracy
48:25 - Tablature
51:40 - Guitar Hero
52:51 - Klavarskribo
54:08 - Other types of keyboard notation
55:47 - Musitude!
1:01:18 - Dodeca
1:03:01 - Accessibility
1:04:31 - Farbige Noten
1:06:49 - Jullian Carrillo's system
1:08:26 - The best of the rest
1:11:52 - Where can we go from here?
--------- BIBLIOGRAPHY ---------
BOOKS
Julian Carrillo: Sistema General de Escritura Musical (Mexico City: Ediciones Sonidos 13, 1895)
Charles Francis Abdy Williams: The Story of Notation (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1903)
archive.org/details/storynota...
Willi Apel: The Notation of Polyphonic Music, 900-1600 (The Mediaeval Academy of America, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1953)
archive.org/details/notationo...
Gardner Read: Source Book of Proposed Music Notation Reforms (Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 1987)
ARTICLES AND BLOGS
A timeline of music notation - Jon Silpayamanant (this is a wonderful resource with circa 900 notation systems covered)
silpayamanant.wordpress.com/t...
Adémar de Chabannes, Carolingian Musical Practices, and Nota Romana - James Grier - Journal of the American Musicological Society, Vol. 56, No. 1, pp. 43-98. - University of California Press
Musical Clefs and their Abolition, T. L. Southgate - The Musical Times and Singing Class Circular, Vol. 30, No. 559 (Sep. 1, 1889)
www.jstor.org/stable/3360190?...
Cross eyed pianist on the topic of notation being ‘elitist’. crosseyedpianist.com/tag/elit...
The Muto Method
muto-method.com/en/score.html
Proposed redesign of piano sheet music
/ how-i-d-redesign-piano...
Musitude
musitude.com/
The Modes of Ancient Greek Music
www.gutenberg.org/files/40288...
VIDEOS
Reconstruction of Greek music, led by Professor Armand D'Angour • Rediscovering Ancient ...
Offertorium: Jubilate Deo universa terra
• Offertorium: Jubilate ...
An introduction to mensural notation
• Mensural notation - th...
OTHER LINKS
Daseian notation
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daseian...
Style similar to Nonantolian notation
unipub.uni-graz.at/obvugrscri...
Mensural notation wikipedia page (which is very good)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mensura...
Database of high-res scans of early Christian music
www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/lis...
Mensural notation scan: Missae partes decantari solitae: Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus et Agnus Dei cum notis musicalibus
search.onb.ac.at/primo-explor...
Mouth pictogram imagery by pch.vector www.freepik.com/free-vector/m...
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