notation

Mr. Wade calls this process of inheritance “catching,” the transmission of a tune without formal notation or instruction, overheard once and absorbed by musicians who may now be little remembered.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

"At the start of the lesson, I would go through how to play the musical notation, and then the lesson would just be silent focus on trying to learn this musical notation," he says.

From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026

Shortly after “In C,” Riley gave up the use of notation, devoting himself to keyboard improvisation and his vocal raga practice.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2025

“Dorico’s not totally perfect if you have super weird stuff like harp notation or complicated percussion staves. You might have to hand-tweak those after they’re in the new system,” said Pogue.

From Slate ● Sep. 26, 2024

Positional notation symbols take the aggravation out of arithmetic.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

One suspects that there were few professional narrators up to the task of articulating so many numbers and notations and technical nuances.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026

GPT-4 generated identical notations for the same marker genes in 85 percent of cases.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 25, 2024

Amid all the praise, criticism, helpful notations and humorous color, Slagle’s voice is notably absent.

From Salon ● Dec. 18, 2023

Turns out his caddie had used a level on the practice green and put some notations in the book.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 3, 2023

He took out the card marked ‘Mrs. Dan Davis and Family’ and glanced through the notations until he reached Lancy’s name.

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers