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notation

[noh-tey-shuhn] / noʊˈteɪ ʃən /


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"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

Ms. Chan examines the process by which scales and music notation came to the page.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 23, 2026

He noted where smugglers had blowtorched openings big enough to crawl through and pointed out the spray-painted notation of when those gaps were closed.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 2, 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

This notation can be confusing, though, and in some music the pickups and repeats are written in a way that avoids these broken-up measures.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones

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

She filled three pages in her notebook with more than 60 notations, including sidewalk graffiti.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 18, 2026

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

From Science Daily Mar. 25, 2024

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

After every workout it was Ulbrickson’s habit to sit down in his office and make notations in a logbook.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown




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