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

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

“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

Perotin, though, began using an upgraded method of notation that did for the first time indicate the rhythmic value of notes.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

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

On 1st March, Dr Pratt noticed a surprising little "e" in notations added to the book.

From Science Daily ● May 15, 2024

Pedro’s notations, though repetitious and even tedious, opened my eyes to his meticulous nature, the way he viewed each dollar as one that couldn’t fall through the cracks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 26, 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

Then the man goes back to his notations.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr