notation
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Western notation can’t always capture African musical innovations.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026
Basically, it’s just choice of notation, the hanging on notes, which comes across much better when we play live.”
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 20, 2025
Both became industry standards for digital music notation throughout the 2000s, launching regular updates and holding a sort of “duopoly” over the space, as Dorico’s product marketing manager, Daniel Spreadbury, characterized it to me.
From Slate • Sep. 26, 2024
The defendant or his sons signed 11 checks to Michael Cohen with a false stub notation, “Retainer.”
From Salon • May 24, 2024
It empowered and spread forms of music that had developed without notation, making available to a mass audience folk and ethnic music that had up to then been confined to local communities.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
Vocabulary lists containing notation
Jim Burke's Academic Vocabulary List
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The ACT Math Test: Number and Quantity
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Music - Introductory
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